A volcano in Iceland erupted Saturday evening for the fourth time in three months, sending orange jets of lava into the night sky. Iceland’s Meteorological Office said the eruption opened a ...

OSLO — The Reykjanes volcano in southwest Iceland erupted on Monday, spewing lava and smoke into the air, after weeks of intense earthquake activity, the country’s Meteorological Office said.

Iceland, which sits above a volcanic hot spot in the North Atlantic, averages one eruption every four to five years. The most disruptive in recent times was the 2010 eruption of the ...

The Fagradalsfjall volcano, which sits in an uninhabited valley not far from Keflavik Airport, Iceland’s international air traffic hub, erupts again. Aug. 4, 2022 ...

People watch as the night sky is illuminated caused by the eruption of a volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwestern Iceland seen from the capital city of Reykjavik on Monday, Dec. 18, 2023.

The concept isn’t hypothetical. Tephra layers in Icelandic peat cores show that eruptions soared six-fold between 12,000 and ...

Authorities in Iceland are warning people to stay away from a volcano that spectacularly erupted Monday and forced the evacuation of thousands of people — but hordes of gawkers are still ...

Eruption from Iceland volcano could last for months 01:37. Iceland, which sits above a volcanic hot spot in the North Atlantic, averages an eruption every four to five years.

As Iceland waits for a possible volcanic eruption, the more than 3,000 residents of a small fishing town that was evacuated on Saturday are slowly gathering some of their personal possessions with ...

Bill Whitaker was there as lava flowed from a volcano in Iceland in 2021, covering the landscape in molten rock. He returned to see what scientists have learned from the eruption.