For nearly 40 days, telecommunications were extremely limited across the small Pacific island nation of Tonga, after a volcanic eruption displaced and cut an underwater fiber optic cable.
Ash from a volcano in Iceland is again causing flight cancellations in Europe. Anchor Lisa Mullins finds out what the ash cloud might feel like if you are in it, from John Maclennan, a volcano expert at Cambridge University in England.
The Grimsvotn volcano erupted Saturday in Reykjavik, Iceland and has forced the closure of the main international airport and cancellation of all domestic flights. Matthew Roberts from the Iceland Meteorological Office joins us.
It was hard enough to pronounce the name of Iceland's volcano. Eyjafjallajokull grounded trans-Atlantic flights earlier this year with its ash and smoke. Now another multi-syllabic volcano is sending plumes into the sky. So its easy to spot�
We take look at what's ahead this week. Volcanic ash continues to keep most European flights grounded; meanwhile, Washington is buzzing about the Iran memo sent by Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
Travelers caught up in the air transport chaos in Europe caused by a cloud of volcanic ash from an Icelandic volcano are going to extraordinary measures to get home. British travelers trying to get to the U.K. will soon get help from two major war ships.
As the high altitude ash plume from Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano halts air travel around Europe and beyond, we look at another impact the global grounding has made: on commodity trades.
A massive cloud of ashes has kept thousands of flights on the ground in Northern Europe yesterday after a volcano in Iceland erupted a second time this month, spewing huge amounts of silicate ash into a busy airspace for travelers in the region.
A five-mile high plume of ash from an erupting volcano in Iceland is drifting across Northern Europe, causing massive disruption at airports in the U.K. and Scandinavia.
When Alaska's Mount Redoubt erupted in March, researchers found a trove of information to help them understand what causes volcanic lightning.