Here we explain how and why the crisis developed. Iceland is a country of fire and ice, home to several volcanoes and straddling two tectonic plates. The Eyjafjallajokull volcano began erupting in ...

The most disruptive in recent times was the 2010 eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano, which spewed clouds of ash into the atmosphere and disrupted trans-Atlantic air travel for months.

The ash from a volcano can also cause breathing problems, and create travel disruptions, as it lowers the visibility for pilots. This is what happened when Eyjafjallajokull erupted in Iceland in 2010.

In 2010, an ash cloud from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano, in a different region of Iceland, closed much of Europe's air space for six days. "The eruption is a very calm lava eruption and can hardly ...