Depending on the place, travelers can take lava boat tours, hop helicopter trips over calderas, surf down the slopes of a ...

A new solution is taking shape in Iceland to protect people and infrastructure from lava flow. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Bárðarbunga volcano system, which lies along Iceland's Eastern Volcanic Zone, is the longest and one of the most active ...

Iceland is known as a "hot spot" for volcanic activity, Algeo said. MORE: Kilauea, active Hawaiian volcano, could erupt like a 'stomp-rocket toy,' new study suggests There are 32 active volcano ...

Iceland sits on a fixed hotspot (a magma ... Vik sits inside Katla Geopark and of its four active volcanoes, the most feared is Katla. “It’s covered by a 700-metre-thick ice cap and the ...

The glacier Skaftafellsjokull flows out of the Vatnajokull ice cap on Iceland’s south coast. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov A scientific mecca Oraefajokull is one of six active volcanoes covered by the ...

More Valentin Troll Today, the peninsula region is host to eight different volcanically active sites ... magma that wells up beneath Iceland means that its volcanoes tend to be less volatile ...

Iceland, which is roughly the size of the U.S. state of Kentucky, boasts more than 30 active volcanoes, making the north European island a prime destination for volcano tourism — a niche ...

like Hawai’i’s Mount Kīlauea or Grimsvötn in Iceland, indicates that a volcano is active. However, not all active volcanoes are erupting. They have the potential to erupt in the future with ...