Iceland is a country of fire and ice, home to several volcanoes and straddling two tectonic plates. The Eyjafjallajokull volcano began erupting in March. On 14 April, the eruption entered a new ...

The most disruptive in recent times was the 2010 eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano, which spewed clouds of ash into the atmosphere and disrupted trans-Atlantic air travel for months.

Eyjafjallajokull in 2010 was actually a small eruption but it happened on a volcano underneath an ice cap,' Dr Carmen Solana, a volcanologist at the University of Portsmouth, told MailOnline.

Iceland's glacier covered volcano - Eyjafjallajokull erupted on 15 April 2010, spewing volcanic ash and dust high into the ...

The ash from a volcano can also cause breathing problems, and create travel disruptions, as it lowers the visibility for pilots. This is what happened when Eyjafjallajokull erupted in Iceland in 2010.