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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.
Have any memories of the May 1980 Mt. Saint Helens eruption? Send them in for Eruptions 30th anniversary commemoration.
If you can believe it, the Chaiten eruption – and this blog – have just turned two!
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.
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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.