The world financial crisis has hit Iceland particularly hard. The government has had to seek emergency funding from abroad, and suspend trading in its own currency.
But there's at least one cause for longer-term hope - efforts to make Iceland a pioneer in the alternative energy industry.
Nazanine Moshiri reports on the country's ground-breaking production and use of hydrogen fuel.
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by Dagonweb, on October 27 2008:
The icelandic may be, by chance or some hidden manipulation, the first to be forcibly squeezed through the imminent economic and scarcity-derived global reformatting. Iceland is at the start of a painful process that may be educational to follow in great detail.