Tourists and locals have been evacuated on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula after the twelfth volcanic eruption in the region since 2021. The eruption began around 4 am following an intense seismic swarm on the Reykjanes Peninsula,

Those were the words of a couple of geologists on their honeymoon early on Thursday morning in Grindavik, watching a curtain of lava bubble in front of them after a volcano erupted near the southwest...

The Government of Iceland says this eruption is highly localized and poses no threat to infrastructure, tourist attractions, or air traffic, but it does pose certain health hazards.