Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. After 800 years of dormancy, volcanoes have awakened on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula, about 56 kilometers south of the capital Reykjavik. Since 2021, a series of eruptions have disrupted daily life in the densely populated area, … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. After 800 years of dormancy, volcanoes have awakened on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula, about 56 kilometers south of the capital Reykjavik. Since 2021, a series of eruptions have disrupted daily life in the densely populated area, … Read more
A tourist takes a lava selfie on the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland – Sophia Groves/Getty Walking through a charred landscape, steam streaming from the horizon into a lifeless sky, I could have found myself in a dystopian nightmare. Darkness, rubble, sulphurous gases: not exactly the triumvirate of sun, sea and sand that determines most people’s holiday … Read more
A volcano spews lava and smoke as it erupts in Grindavik, Iceland on December 18, 2023 – REUTERS Tourists have been warned to stay away from an area in southern Iceland as a violent volcanic eruption continues to rock the Reykjanes Peninsula. The ongoing eruption is located 30 km southwest of Iceland’s capital Reykjavik, close … Read more
A volcano spews lava and smoke as it erupts in Grindavik, Iceland on December 18, 2023 – REUTERS After weeks of intense seismic activity, a volcano has erupted in southwestern Iceland, just one day after the area reopened to tourists. The eruption takes place just a few kilometers from Iceland’s most popular tourist attraction, the … Read more
Thirteen years after the Eyjafjallajökull volcano famously spewed ash into European skies, multiple eruptions across Iceland have spawned an unlikely new travel trend: volcano tourism. Iceland is one of the most volcanically active places on Earth, with an eruption occurring approximately every three to five years, much to the delight of adventurers looking to catch … Read more