While the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull (pronounced ay-yah-FYAH-lah-yoh-kuhl) has had a major impact on modern-day air travellers, spare a thought for our ancestors who were nearly wiped out by a ...

A volcanic eruption in 2010 put the island nation on millions of travelers’ maps. But is the country’s culture now at risk? By Stefano Montali The Icelandic Meteorological Office has warned of an ...

When the Fimmvoruhald volcano at Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier erupted on Wednesday, it sent a massive cloud of ash 20,000 feet into the air. While Iceland was largely unaffected by the cloud, it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A once long-dormant volcano in Iceland is erupting again and impacting activity in a populated region nearby. The volcano, on the ...

As volcanic eruptions go, Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull won’t break the records. Icelanders dismiss the normally sleepy Eyjafjallajokull as a “weary old man,” and in fact few people outside the ...

As volcanoes go, the eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull on Tuesday, April 13, won’t make the science books. Though scientists haven’t yet been able to gather enough information on the eruption to ...

I—and millions more—had never heard of Eyjafjallajokull, the Icelandic volcano, until it blew up a few days ago and belched ash and dirty ice into the atmosphere at a rate of 750 tons per second. Now, ...

REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Iceland lowered its warning code for possible volcanic disruption to the aviation industry to orange from red on Sunday after further analysis of an apparent eruption under a ...