A volcanic eruption could destroy the Icelandic town of Grindavik or lead to extensive ash clouds, experts have warned. The country has been shaken by more than 800 small earthquakes today alone, ...

The 2021 "Fagradalsfjall Fires" eruptions may have been triggered by magma pooling just underneath the ground, contrary to what scientists initially thought. An eruption of the Fagradalsfjall volcano ...

The gas plume from the most recent Iceland volcano eruptions has been mapped as it moves towards Europe. The eruption, which began at the Fagradalsfjall volcano along the Reykjanes peninsula on 17 ...

Watching a volcano while it erupts or even while it is calm can be both thrilling and unsettling at the same time. The burning lava, rising smoke, and the force of the eruption remind us of nature’s ...

Lava flows create a map-like pattern on black basalt rocks at Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall volcano, which erupted in March 2021 for the first time in nearly 800 years. On June 2, 2025, Italy’s Mount Etna, ...

What Iceland’s volcanoes are revealing about early life on our planet Speleologists in metallurgical “cooling suits” emerge from the extreme heat of a lava tube formed by the eruption in 2021 of Mount ...

20 May 2021. Fjóla Guðrún Sigtryggsdóttir is shown studying the lava field upstream of the dams, with the Fagradalsfjall volcano in the background. It had been dormant for 800 years, but in March 2021 ...