In 2010, the Eyjafjallajökull volcano — part of a volcanic system in the east of the country — erupted and casted clouds of ash into the air that forced aerial shutdowns across Europe.

When Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted in 2010 it left millions of travellers stranded and cost airlines an estimated €900 million. Now geophysicists are using satellites to provide advance ...

The ash cloud produced by the eruption of a sub-glacial volcano in Iceland brought chaos to the European air industry between 14 and 21 April. Since then, disruption to flights has continued ...

The wind was blowing from the west. Unlike the eruption in 2010 of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano, which halted approximately 900,000 flights and forced hundreds of Icelanders from their homes ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In 2010, the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland erupted. The resulting cloud of ash and sulfur dioxide caused 20 countries to close their airspace for six days ...

A red alert means a major volcanic eruption is imminent, underway, or suspected with hazardous activity both on the ground ...

This story appears in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. It was five days before Christmas, and in the hut on the north flank of Eyjafjallajökull, the volcano that grounded ...

Holidaymakers have been evacuated from a popular tourist hot spot in Iceland amid fears of a volcanic eruption. The alarm was raised after lava began flowing from the Sunddhnúksgígar volcano ...

Kucharski, a mathematician, had been poised to fly from the Caribbean to the UK until the sudden eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland pumped a vast ash cloud into the air.

When the Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted in April 2010, tourism to Iceland plummeted; negative stories spread online and the country was left with a projected £180m shortfall in revenue. ‘Inspired by ...