Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...

A few craftsman in Iceland still practice the technique of building with turf, a tradition believed to date to the ninth century settlement of Europe's most sparsely-populated country. With walls and ...

A land of vast open spaces, steaming blue lagoons, geysers, and powerful volcanoes, Iceland is beautifully raw and remote, but not exactly hospitable to humans. When the Norse and British settlers ...

Tucked into Iceland’s dramatic landscape, this abandoned turf-style home feels like something pulled straight from another world. With its tiny doorways, stone-and-straw construction, old kitchen ...

Throughout Iceland, travelers will find little black “turf houses” with grassy roofs, which often extend all the way to the ground on either side to form one continuous green plane. These traditional ...

Rachel Heller posted a fabulous article about Icelandic turf houses. I don't know if I'd like to live in one, but I sure do want to visit! They cut thick pieces of the earth, grass and roots and all, ...

An old turf house is shown in 2014 in Skalholt, Iceland, where coastal erosion poses such a threat to Viking-era historic artifacts that a member of the country's parliament warns of a "cultural ...