Perhaps the most unusual weather event was a volcanic eruption that once caused hundreds of entrants to miss the race.

Additionally, volcanic ash fallout could reach eastern Europe. A much smaller volcano, Eyjafjallajökull, previously paralyzed air traffic over Europe in 2010. This time, the consequences would ...

This story appears in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. It was five days before Christmas, and in the hut on the north flank of Eyjafjallajökull, the volcano that grounded ...

The ash cloud produced by the eruption of a sub-glacial volcano in Iceland brought chaos to the European air industry between 14 and 21 April. Since then, disruption to flights has continued ...

The glacier is known for its distinctive black streaks, which were formed when ash from eruptions of the nearby Katla and Eyjafjallajökull volcanoes settled on the ice, and were later covered in ...

When Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted in 2010 it left millions of travellers stranded and cost airlines an estimated €900 million. Now geophysicists are using satellites to provide advance ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In 2010, the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland erupted. The resulting cloud of ash and sulfur dioxide caused 20 countries to close their airspace for six days ...

The volcano in Hawaii is reportedly the most active one, however, it is still compared to Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland, Sakurajima in Japan, and Mount Etna in Sicily. 2) The volcano is home to the ...

One of the best known eruptions lately was the country's famously hard to pronounce volcano, Eyjafjallajökull, which erupted for three weeks straight in 2010, disrupting international air travel ...

The wind was blowing from the west. Unlike the eruption in 2010 of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano, which halted approximately 900,000 flights and forced hundreds of Icelanders from their homes ...