Before April 13-14, 2010, most people outside Iceland (or this blog) had ever heard the name Eyjafjallajökull and suddenly (much to the dismay of broadcasters everywhere), it became a household name.

Eyjafjallajökull's exceptionally fine-grained ash is what is keeping European planes out of the sky. But evidence is now suggesting that Eyjafjallajökull has consumed much of the glacier over ...

Eyjafjallajökull ash under a petrographic microscope in crossed-polarized light at ~100x. Image by Erik Klemetti. This just shows some more detail on the mineral grains and the glass shards.

Scientists have several ways of forecasting when the Eyjafjallajökull eruption will stop. But their data – and history – suggest the Iceland volcano's ash cloud could persist for some time.

Iceland is a land like no other,a place where fire meets ice, where dramatic landscapes stretch as far as the eye can see, ...

However, he added, the probability of an Eyjafjallajökull-style event is rather slim, because the situation in the Reykjanes Peninsula is different — the lava fields are shallow, ...

Eyjafjallajökull's Chill Factor. How the Icelandic volcano could potentially cause a climate-change whiplash. By Graeme Wood. April 20, 2010. Share. Save.

This likely contributed to the extremely high proportion of very fine ash coughed out of Eyjafjallajökull back in 2010, which escaped over the sea through the eruption column’s umbrella region.

As best I can tell from trawling around various news sources, the effects have actually been pretty mild—though they could get a lot worse if Eyjafjallajökull's sister volcano Katla erupted ...

In what is sounding like a bit of a broken record, the eruption at Eyjafjallajökull is still going. However, we might be beginning to see some changes in the style of volcanism - even the first ...

Grímsvötn has already released 10 to 100 times as much ash as Eyjafjallajökull, but Dave Rothery, an earth scientist in the volcano dynamics group at the Open University in Milton Keynes, ...

Eyjafjallajökull, at 700,000 years old, is one of the island's oldest volcanoes, and not very active. "It's more of an introvert," Sigurdsson explains. "I would say: a weary old man." ...