Icelandic volcano threatens travel plans - Update
Posted Tue, 24 May 2011 12:12:00 GMT by Colin Ricketts
For the second summer an eruption in Iceland is causing travel disruption as the island's most active volcano releases a massive ash cloud into the atmosphere. On Saturday, 21 May Grimsvotn, Iceland's most active volcano, started to erupt sending ash plumes seven miles into the sky, rising to a peak altitude of 12 miles. Yesterday (May 23) 2,000 tonnes of ash a second were coming out of the crater, with 120 million tonnes released in the first 48 hours
Icelandic volcano threatens travel plans - Update