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An enormous volcanic eruption on Iceland in 1783-84 did not cause an extreme summer heat wave in Europe. But, as Benjamin Franklin speculated, the ...
Following the 1783-84 eruption of the Laki volcano on Iceland, Benjamin Franklin speculated on its effects on the climate. A new study shows he was right.
FJADRÁRGLJÚFUR, Iceland — A large sign warns motorists that Iceland's Fjadrárgljúfur canyon is closed to visitors but drivers keep on coming down the ...
Quakes detected near: Askja (13 quakes between mag 0.2-1.9), Brennisteinsfjöll (5 quakes between mag 0.2-1.3), Chaîne des Puys (1 quake mag 3.2), Clear ...
Quakes detected near: Askja (6 quakes between mag 0.1-1.5), Clear Lake (30 quakes between mag 0.3-1.8), Etna (2 quakes between mag 1.0-2.0), Kilauea (3 ...
Geothermal engineers are turning CO2 into fizzy water and injecting it into rocks—and it's working.
These images are from a new book in Amber Books' Visual Explorer Guide series called Iceland, by Chris McNab. They capture Iceland's quite breath-taking ...
From glacial lagoons to volcanic caves, fill out your Iceland bucket list with these stunning destinations.
HENGILL, Iceland — In the heart of Iceland's volcano country, 21st-century alchemists are transforming carbon dioxide into rock for eternity, cleaning the air of ...
Despite screaming headlines in the British tabloids and even the Sunday Times, there is no sign that Iceland's Katla volcano will erupt any time soon, scientists ...
Quakes detected near: Akyarlar (2 quakes between mag 2.3-2.5), Bardarbunga (3 quakes between mag 0.2-1.2), Clear Lake (15 quakes between mag 0.6-2.2), ...
The phenomenon known as "volcano tourism" is both a cause for concern—and to tour companies, an opportunity—that Iceland must contend with.
Quakes detected near: Akyarlar (1 quake mag 1.5), Clear Lake (17 quakes between mag 0.4-1.7), Coso (1 quake mag 1.6), Grensdalur (6 quakes between mag ...
The Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull made worldwide headlines in 2010 when it erupted ash that was blown towards Europe, so that air traffic was grounded ...
High-precision airborne measurements, in combination with atmospheric modeling, suggest that the Katla subglacial caldera may be one of the planet's biggest ...
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A volcanic eruption in Iceland set off one of Brent Landau's most memorable travel headaches over the course of his successful career as a plaintiffs attorney.
Katla is a surprisingly big emitter of carbon dioxide.
A huge volcano in southern Iceland is belching higher quantities of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere than previously thought, prompting scientists to ...
Katla volcano has been a point of interest in recent weeks due to the release of a scientific paper revealing how much carbon dioxide is being produced by the ...
Katla, known for its frequent and explosive eruptions, produces more carbon dioxide than almost any other volcano on Earth.
Scientists are monitoring CO2 released by the Icelandic volcano, which may help predict an eruption more accurately.
The volcano is continuing to show signs of unrest. Over the past months, elevated numbers of small earthquakes have continued to occur beneath the ...
The years after 536 CE were characterized by widespread famine and a devastating plague swept across Europe. Scientists believe a powerful volcanic ...
HUGE amounts of potentially dangerous methane gas are being released from a glacier connected to Katla volcano - one of Iceland's most active volcanoes.
Katla, a giant volcano hidden beneath the ice cap of Mýrdalsjökull glacier, is busy filling its magma chambers, new research confirms. An eruption in Katla would ...
The eruptions in Krafla in North East Iceland, which began in December 1975, were one of the largest volcanic eruption in modern Icelandic history.
Speculation has been swirling about the glacier-covered volcano in southeast Iceland, but the activity of volcanoes is notoriously difficult to predict.
On 20 March 2010, after months of heightened seismic activity, a volcanic eruption on the Fimmvörðuháls Pass opened a 500-metre fissure in the Southern ...
Huge amounts of methane are being released from a glacier connected to Katla—one of Iceland's largest and most active volcanoes. Researchers found that up ...
Last night, a powerful earthquake hit the Isle of Surtsey, a part of the South Coast's Vestmannaeyjar islands. The 3.4 magnitude quake struck at 1.42 AM.
Harvard historian, Michael McCormick, asserts that the year 536 AD was the worst year to be alive in human history, and the catalyst for a century-long spell of ...
Visitors to Iceland's volcanoes are ignoring the rules, many to get the perfect selfie.
A cluster of volcanic eruptions in the 6th century may have been responsible for what is being called " the worst year to be alive" in human history.
Iceland's Bárðarbunga volcano system was racked by four large earthquakes at the end of October. The rumbles, reported as magnitudes 3.9, 3.2, 4.7, and 4.7, ...
The eruption of a volcano can have devastating consequences – killing people and destroying livelihoods, as well as releasing vast amounts of ash into the sky ...
It's time to celebrate. To be fair, it's always time to celebrate. But today it's time to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the last major eruption of Iceland's beloved ...
Iceland is one of the most volcanically active countries on earth, its high level of activity a consequence of sitting upon a hotspot known as a deep mantle plume.
Today marks the nine-year-anniversary of Eyjafjallajökull's mighty 2010 eruption, an explosion that created an ash plume so large that much of mainland ...
“It's like the lottery. If you make it up here you're lucky” my guide tells me, his eyelashes clumping with ice as we shelter behind the bulk of a Snowcat.
The ninth plague of Egypt was complete darkness that lasted for three days. But in 536 A.D., much of the world went dark for a full 18 months, as a mysterious fog ...
A brief but sharp earthquake swarm was detected in Öræfajökull, one of Iceland's most powerful volcanoes shortly before midnight, yesterday Monday.
A strong earthquake swarm was detected in the central caldera of the monster volcano Bárðarbunga shortly after six this morning. The most powerful quake was ...
It seems fitting that Iceland's tallest peak also Hvannadalshnjúkur is located in one of Iceland's deadliest volcanoes. For more than 250 years Öræfajökull has ...
In 536 CE, a titanic eruption covered Europe in a cloud. A new collaboration between scientists and historians shows what that meant, the rich possibilities of ...
Quakes detected near: Askja (6 quakes between mag 0.1-2.1), Clear Lake (25 quakes between mag 0.3-2.7), Kilauea (2 quakes between mag 1.9-2.0), Krafla (3 ...
Vatnajökull glacier, the largest glacier in Iceland and Europe, hides five or six active volcanoes. In addition to Bárðarbunga and Öræfajökull, which have been ...
Volcanoes have a long and storied history of altering the course of art and human culture.
Thrill-seeking tourists are putting themselves in danger and hampering emergency services by heading towards volcanoes when they erupt. A report from the ...
Many of the complex intricacies that cause volcanic lightning are still mysteries to researchers.
Quakes detected near: Askja (4 quakes between mag 0.2-1.0), Clear Lake (21 quakes between mag 0.3-1.9), Coso (4 quakes between mag 0.7-2.1), Etna (1 ...
Geologists are closely monitoring Iceland's biggest volcano after a string of recent activity. The earthquake activity is often a telltale sign that the volcano is ...
The Department of Civil and Emergency Management in Iceland have issued a new status for Öræfajökull volcano saying that it shows clear signs of unrest.
This is what Iceland's most visually resplendent volcanic features look like.
Situated under south Iceland's Mýrdalsjökull glacier, Katla is among the world's fiercest and most active volcanos. Of all the volcanoes in Iceland, this is the one ...
This September, almost 100 years after Katla's last eruption, a particularly volcanic piece of history is brought back to life. Fittingly located in the middle of the ...
On January 23 1973 one of the most dramatic eruptions in recent Icelandic history began when a long lava spewing fissure opened up along the eastern shore ...
Quakes detected near: Askja (4 quakes between mag 0.5-1.0), Brennisteinsfjöll (1 quake mag 1.1), Clear Lake (20 quakes between mag 0.2-2.7), Grensdalur (2 ...
A recent study about Katla, a subglacial volcano in Iceland, revealed that despite previous assumptions, Katla emits CO2 at a globally significant level.
Elephant Rock in Iceland is a volcanic rock formation that looks just like an elephant dipping its trunk in the water.
When Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted explosively in 2010, it shut down all aviation across the North Atlantic for one week. The dispersal of the ash cloud led to ...
Researchers have recently been able to piece together details that could help tell the story of how a massive volcanic eruption in 939 CE shifted culture and ...
What does one do on an island formed by volcanoes? Climb the volcano, of course. Follow me to Heimaey, the largest and only inhabited island in the ...
ICELAND'S largest volcano has been struck by two powerful earthquakes which is a sign that Bardarbunga could be about to erupt.
Several relatively strong earthquakes have been detected in one of the most powerful volcanoes in Iceland sinc yesterday. A total of 15 quakes have been ...
After triggering a tsunami earlier this week, one of modern history's deadliest volcanic areas is again raising alarms. Increased activity on the volcanic island of ...
Tectonic earthquakes are among the most powerful natural phenomena on the planet. It's no surprise, then, that they are sometimes suspected of being able to ...
Volcanologists have developed a method and camera that could help reduce the dangers, health risks and travel impacts of ash plumes during a volcanic ...
Mt Agung going through an effusive type eruption on full moon night, here backlit by the setting moon and front lit by the first rays of the sunrise.
Quakes detected near: Bardarbunga (3 quakes between mag 0.6-1.6), Clear Lake (14 quakes between mag 0.4-1.6), Coso (2 quakes between mag 0.6-1.2), ...
System tracks infrasound waves to determine when an eruption is imminent — and alerts the Italian government.
In his research article, Oppenheimer compared Eldgjá's devastating eruption to accounts in the Icelandic poem Voluspá, written some 60 years later as Iceland ...
Quakes detected near: Bardarbunga (1 quake mag 1.0), Brennisteinsfjöll (3 quakes between mag 0.3-1.2), Clear Lake (21 quakes between mag 0.4-2.8), Coso ...
British newspaper The Sunday Times have apologized for their cover story of an imminent eruption in the Katla volcano in Iceland, a story that was factually ...
The Royal Geographical Society has warned of the ever-growing risk of volcano tourism, which sees hordes of tourists rushing into countries like Iceland to see ...
The townspeople of Vestmannaeyjar in Iceland fought lava with water and saved their town in 1973.
If a major eruption were to occur in Öræfajökull, this could paralyse all air traffic across Europe for days on end, according to a research group at the University of ...
Quakes detected near: Akyarlar (1 quake mag 1.7), Bardarbunga (7 quakes between mag 0.2-3.7), Clear Lake (14 quakes between mag 0.3-1.6), El Hierro (2 ...
Yesterday's sharp 3.1 magnitude quake in Öræfajökull is a reminder that Iceland's second deadliest volcano is waking up from centuries of slumber. It is still too ...
Eyjafjallajökull seen as nearest recent example of what civil *service* could have to cope with.
It's one of Iceland's most notorious volcanoes and scientists have been anticipating it to erupt at any given moment for quite a few years now. Nevertheless Mt.
Several earthquakes have been recorded at Bárðarbunga on the Öræfajökull glacier volcano in the last few days. On Oct. 1, two quakes were recorded.
A new study looks for traces of the devastating volcanic event in a poem composed in approximately 961 A.D..
A sharp earthquake swarm was detected in the Bárðarbunga caldera early morning today, Monday. A 3.0 magnitude quake, with an epicenter 7.6 km (4.7 mi) ...
A strong earthquake swarm hit the monster volcano Bárðarbunga late yesterday evening, Monday. Two separate 4+ earthquakes, including a 4.6 magnitude ...
Earthquakes are shaking the ground around Iceland's explosive Bardarbunga volcano, but experts say there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for this: The ...
The national park could power the entire continental U.S. with clean energy. Here's why it remains untapped.
The Okjökull glacier died in 2014. It wasn't the first Icelandic glacier to pass away. Some estimates say that up to ten named bodies of ice have previously ...
Scientists have discovered that Iceland's Sólheimajökull glacier, which covers the active volcano, Katla, is releasing up to 41 tons of methane every day through ...
Human extinction may be the stuff of nightmares but there are many ways in which it could happen. Popular culture tends to focus on only the most spectacular ...
One of Iceland's largest and most active volcanoes sits below a massive ice cap covering nearly 595 square kilometers (230 square miles) of the Arctic nati.
HUSAVIK, Iceland (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For half the year, the temperature on Pall Olafsson's remote farm in Iceland often dips below freezing and ...
A sharp earthquake swarm was detected in the monster volcano Bárðarbunga yesterday evening, Monday. The swarm included two 3.0+ magnitude quakes in ...
Quakes detected near: Bardarbunga (5 quakes between mag 0.7-4.2), Buzzard Creek (1 quake mag 1.7), Clear Lake (20 quakes between mag 0.3-2.8), Geysir ...
"Oraefajokull is one of the most dangerous volcanos in Iceland. It's a volcano for which we need to be very careful," official says.
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A powerful earthquake measuring 4.8 occurred on the northern rim of the Bárðarbunga volcano in the early hours of Friday morning, RÚV reports. The initial ...
A brief but sharp earthquake swarm was detected in the Bárðarbunga caldera before noon today, Friday. The relatively short swarm, which counted just a ...
Ever wanted to know why Iceland's volcanoes can cause so much trouble for air travel, or why the 2010 eruption came as a surprise to experts all over the planet ...
Iceland is packed with wonders: waterfalls, glaciers, fjords and geysers. Though magnificent, this landscape is perhaps the most dangerous place in Europe.