Remotely Piloted Aircrafts will be used for monitoring by the Directorate of Fisheries in September and we would like to ask fishermen to keep in mind that all recordings are carefully examined and fish that goes overboard is species analyzed.

Approximately twenty individuals participated in an educational excursion organised 14 August by Land and Forest Iceland in partnership with the Reykjavík Botanic Garden, where they gained valuable insights into soil and soil life. The event was called "Life in the soil". Participants were provided with comprehensive knowledge about carbon sequestration underground, fungi, bacteria, and other soil organisms. Additionally, they were introduced to two different effective methods for creating soil from organic household waste.

Alice Harpa Björgvinsdóttir has been hired as chief psychologist at HSN.

Land and Forest is looking for a full-time worker to supervise seed production in Gunnarsholt. Supervision of seed production plant and planting in Gunnarsholt. Among the projects are seed production for land reclamation and forestry, supervision of supply and distribution of seed and plants from Gunnarsholt, care in seed production plant, sowing, fertilizer distribution, planting and harvesting work.

Results from a new Gallup survey show that around 8% of children aged 12-17 went to tanning beds once or more in 2023. This result does not differ significantly from the last survey conducted amongst the same age group, which was in 2016. The age limit for using tanning beds in Iceland has been 18 years since 2011. The reason for this is that using tanning beds increases the risk of skin cancer and the risk is greater for children and young people than for adults.

The Directorate of Health's annual report for 2022 has been published.

Recently, there have been reports of infections with monkeypox virus in several countries in Europe, e.g. the United Kingdom, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Belgium and Sweden, but the disease has also been detected in the United States and Canada.

On Wednesday, August 7th, the Health Inspectorate in South Iceland received a notification that a group of individuals who had stayed at Rangárvellir in South Iceland in late July had subsequently developed symptoms of gastrointestinal infection.

Remotely Piloted Aircrafts will be used for monitoring by the Directorate of Fisheries in July and we would like to ask fishermen to keep in mind that all recordings are carefully examined and fish that goes overboard is species analyzed.

On Thursday 25 August, in addition to meeting with the management of the hospital in Akranes, Minister of Health Willum Þórsson visited HVE on the occasion of the formal opening of a new operating room in the hospital.