The Reykjanes Peninsula at Iceland's southwestern edge is one of the country's most populated regions, and it is also one of ...

Learn about the escalating threat of volcanoes in Iceland and how a new warning system is helping to inform the public when ...

Chinese researchers traced 2023 Icelandic volcanic emissions to Arctic smog, showing 80% of Ny-Ålesund’s sulfur dioxide came ...

In 2024, a cutting-edge sensing technology was deployed on a densely populated and volcanically active region in Iceland.

Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading ...

Amid dramatic volcanoes, steaming lava fields and glacial lagoons, a new self-drive route invites travellers to embrace ...

A volcano erupted to the south of Iceland's capital on Tuesday, spewing lava and smoke in a fiery display of orange and red ...

Tourists and residents have been evacuated as a volcano erupted in south-west Iceland, threatening a town and popular ...

A volcano south of Reykjavik, Iceland erupted for the eleventh time since 2021, prompting evacuations of tourists and residents. The eruption did not immediately disrupt air travel, though ...

"Twenty-six minutes later, Vala emailed us that the eruption had actually happened and that they had sent out an evacuation warning." "This is the most active volcanic system in Iceland," Zhan says.

The eruption began near Grindavik, a small town long threatened by volcanic disruptions, and prompted the closure of a popular tourist destination. By Amelia Nierenberg and Egill Bjarnason Egill ...

Iceland sits above a volcanic hot spot in the North Atlantic. The most disruptive incident in recent times was the 2010 eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano, which spewed clouds of ash into the ...