Under the volcano
Images from in and around Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano
Icelandic farmers clear ash from a goat house after heavy ash fall hit their farm bellowing from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Steinar, Iceland, on April 20, 2010. New spurts of ash from Iceland's volcano triggered fresh travel mayhem today, puncturing stranded travellers' hopes of getting home despite the reopening of some of Europe's major air hubs. AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel Dunand (Photo credit should read EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images)EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP / Getty Images
Lava spews from a volcano as it erupts near Eyjafjallajokull April 19, 2010. Flights from large parts of Europe are set to resume on Tuesday under a deal agreed by the European Union to free up airspace closed by a cloud of ash hurled into the sky by the Icelandic volcano. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (ICELAND - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT)LUCAS JACKSON/Reuters
Gudrun Stefanssdottir and Asdis Arnadottir (L) lead their horses along a road after riding to take a closer look at an erupting volcano near Eyjafjallajokull April 19, 2010. Flights from large parts of Europe are set to resume on Tuesday under a deal agreed by the European Union to free up airspace closed by a cloud of ash hurled into the sky by the Icelandic volcano. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (ICELAND - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT ANIMALS)LUCAS JACKSON/Reuters
A British soldier looks back while walking to the HMS Albion warship of the British Royal Navy at anchor at port of Santander northern Spain, Tuesday, April 20, 2010. A Royal Navy warship has sailed to Spain to rescue nearly 800 British soldiers and civilians stranded by the volcanic ash cloud and take them back home to England.The travel-weary passengers are boarding the HMS Albion, a 570-foot (173-meter-long) amphibious assault ship Tuesday at Santander, a port in northern Spain. The voyage back to Portsmouth, England, will take 40 hours.(AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)Alvaro Barrientos/The Associated Press
Smoke and ash from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano block daylight on a church on April 19, 2010 near Asolfssakali. Lava is shooting for the first time from Iceland's erupting volcano and the ash cloud has dramatically reduced. European governments opened up the continent's airspace to new flights from April 20 giving hope to hundreds of thousands of passengers around the world trapped by a cloud of volcanic ash crippling airlines. TOPSHOTS / AFP PHOTO / EMMANUEL DUNAND (Photo credit should read EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images)EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP / Getty Images
A stranded European passenger rests standing-up as he waits for new updates from airport officials on April 20, 2010 at O.R. Tambo international airport in Johannesburg. An emergency flight from South Africa was cancelled today as eruptions from Iceland's Eyjafjoell volcano continued to wreaked havoc on European air traffic. AFP PHOTO/PABALLO THEKISO (Photo credit should read PABALLO THEKISO/AFP/Getty Images)PABALLO THEKISO/AFP / Getty Images
Photographers surround passengers arriving by flight at Brussels Airport, in Zaventem on April 20 , 2010. The resumption began of some flights from Brussels airport following disruption due to a cloud of volcanic ash emanating from a volcano in Iceland. AFP PHOTO/BELGA/ERIC LALMAND (Photo credit should read ERIC LALMAND/AFP/Getty Images)ERIC LALMAND/AFP / Getty Images
A Ryanair aircraft, with its engines still protected, is seen parked on the tarmac behind a silhouetted passenger at Belfast City Airport in Belfast, Northern Ireland on April 20, 2010. Some domestic flights resumed from Belfast City Airport for a short period, but was closed once again due to the cloud of volcanic ash, from Iceland's erupting volcano, that is still covering much of the United Kingdom. AFP PHOTO/PETER MUHLY (Photo credit should read PETER MUHLY/AFP/Getty Images)PETER MUHLY/AFP / Getty Images
A pilot gives the thumps up to as gets the go ahead to leave Belfast City Airport, Northern Ireland, Tuesday, April, 20, 2010. Europe began allowing limited air traffic to resume, giving hope to millions of travelers stranded around the world when ash from a volcano in Iceland choked the jet age to a halt. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)PETER MORRISON/The Associated Press