A volcano erupted near Iceland's capital Reykjavik on Friday, shooting lava high into the night sky after thousands of small earthquakes in recent weeks. The eruption occurred near Fagradalsfjall ...

Bárðarbunga volcano in the north of Iceland could be waking up after an earthquake "swarm" was reported this week.

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 ...

Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupted not once or twice but thrice last year. While its eruptions paused for a brief period of ...

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 ...

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 ...

For travelers around the world, the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull is a downer. For Alain and Valerie, it's a catastrophe. For if they are to make it in time to the tiny Greek ...