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Activity at Eyjafjallajökull has settled down a little bit and wind patterns have helped get most of the airspace over Europe reopened. However, people are already predicting the “summer of ash”.
The latest USGS/Smithsonian Volcanic Activity Report, with news from Iceland (of course), Russia and a busy week in Vanuatu.
Ash from Eyjafjallajökull is now closing airports as far south as Morocco while the eruption chugs on with little sign of an end.
As the eruption continues, the periodic ash disruptions to air travel may be the pattern for Europe over the summer.
The Eyjafjallajökull continues in its new explosive phase, now disrupting transatlantic air traffic routes.
The eruption in Iceland roars onward, introducing the Volcano Picture of the Week and Kilauea lava flows take a wrong turn.
The Eyjafjallajökull eruption has become more explosive over the last day, prompting new closures of airspace over Ireland and the UK.
The ash from the Eyjafjallajökull eruption is prompting new airspace closures over Ireland for Tuesday.
NOVA’s new Mt. Saint Helens special has some great footage of the volcano, but plays a little loose with the science and doomsday tone.
The eruption at Eyjafjallajökull is now producing lava flows that are slowly working their way downslope as well as the strombolian summit explosions.
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The Iceland eruptions continues producing ash and lava flows, Kilauea’s east rift looks to be tapering off, videos of eruptions at Colima in Mexico and the latest USGS/SI report.
Is Ischia a bigger threat than Vesuvius, EU starts to pay back the ash-stricken airlines, tourists get too close to Santiaguito and the eruption at Gaua continues.
A series of “usual and violent” explosions at Guatemala’s Santiaguito dome has prompted authorities to raise the alert level to the second highest level.
As the Eyjafjallajökull eruption continues, the political firestorm that has follows has me asking the naysayers would you have let your mother fly if the sky was potentially full of hazardous ash?
The fallout of the Eyjafjallajökull eruption will likely be far reaching, from the politics of the EU, to climate research, to the future of air travel.
In an eruption without a single fatality and some of the best response by officials to the eruption, some people are calling for “blame” to be doled out.
Eyjafjallajökull seems to be settling into a pattern of small explosions as European airspace reopens – and see a day’s worth of eruption in less than two minutes!
News on the current situation at Gaua in Vanuatu, continuing rumblings in Costa Rica and Russia and more stories of ash, this time from South America.
European airspace begins to reopen as the eruptions at Eyjafjallajökull settle down for the time being.
There are signs that the style of volcanism at Eyjafjallajökull has changed. Meanwhile, ash from the eruption continues to cause problems and has reached eastern North America.
European airlines took test flights over Europe today to see the effect of the Eyjafjallajökull ash on their jets – but it is still unclear when flights over Europe will return to normal.
Could increased volcanism and deglaciation be linked? It is hard to tell, but fascinating to ponder.
Although the world’s eyes are on Iceland, there is other volcano news, including the high cost of a potential Vesuvius eruption, new dome growth at Colima and all the week’s volcanic activity from the Global Volcanism Program
With no clear end in sight for the Eyjafjallajökull ash, airplanes are still grounded across Europe and in Iceland, you can add severe flooding to the ash hazard as well. UPDATED!
Large swaths of European airspace remains closed due to Eyjafjallajökull eruption – and there is no clear end in sight. UPDATE: Now with chemical composition of the ash!
The eruption we’ve been following for weeks in Iceland has now begun to disrupt life in Europe, as the ash from the new explosive phase has closed airspace over much of northern Europe.