A 9-mile sheet of molten rock tunneling toward the surface of a peninsula in southwestern Iceland has set off thousands of earthquakes and raised concerns that a volcanic eruption is imminent. This ...

The big news from Iceland: Eyjafjallajökull may be shifting from a Surtseyan eruption to a more Strombolian mode. This is a good thing. As if the volcano itself wasn’t enough of a phonetic nightmare, ...

Advances in volcanic ash forecasting could transform the aviation industry, avoiding the mass cancellation of flights. View on euronews ...

In the spring of 2010, Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano kaboomed, sending a cloud of ash into European airspace. The resulting disruption in air travel (ash + engines = bad) was the largest on the ...

ESA’s small Proba-1 Earth-watcher has pinpointed the source of the ash that recently paralysed Europe, peering in high resolution from 600 km up at the volcano smouldering through Iceland’s ...

A peek into the roots of the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland earlier this year that disrupted flights across Europe could shed light on the mysterious behavior of volcanoes that ...

This is an artist's conception illustrating the 3-D geometry (left) and timing of events (right column) at Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland. The complicated "plumbing" inside the volcano consists ...

It was a little more than a year ago that Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted, spewing thick ash high into the atmosphere. The volcano itself—aside from giving copy editors and news readers ...