Iceland's remote location and harsh climate aren't exactly welcoming. But its striking scenery, draped with glaciers and punctuated by craggy peaks and steamy geysers, makes this destination ...

Sometimes, the world gets thrown off its axis, and such disorders defy description. Unlike déjà vu, these situations leave us with no familiar feelings, only foreign frustrations. Scholar Karl Weick ...

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A volcano in Iceland that has erupted multiple times since December continued to spew out lava on Tuesday. The crater concerned is located a few kilometres northeast of the town of Grindavik. The ...

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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 ...

In 2010, a previously little-known Icelandic volcano erupted twice, sending a huge plume of volcanic ash all over Europe. The ash cloud grounded flights for days, causing disruption for millions of ...

Iceland has more volcanoes per unit area than any other country. According to NOAA’s volcano database, there is one volcano for every 925 square miles in Iceland. Volcanoes in Indonesia, arguably the ...

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 ...