Volcanoes

Officials said the island will need ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ on top of ‘massive’ humanitarian relief needs.

Caribbean island is blanketed with ash from La Soufriere volcano, ruining crops and contaminating water supplies.

Although no one has been reported killed or injured by the blast, experts say the worst may be yet to come.

Caribbean nations have offered help by either shipping emergency supplies or temporarily opening their borders.

Dormant since 1979, the volcano started showing signs of activity in December, which quickly picked up this week.

Officials have said La Soufriere volcano, which last erupted in 1979, could erupt at any moment.

Volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula flared to life in the area’s first volcanic eruption in nearly 900 years.

Authorities say the eruption of a long-dormant volcano is easing and should not interfere with air travel.

Public advised to stay away and the main road from the capital region to Keflavik airport was temporarily closed.

Life in the shadow of an active volcano might be risky but people living near Mount Vesuvius in Italy are there to stay.

Images show glowing lava flows and dramatic rose-coloured plume of ashes above summit of Europe’s most active volcano.

Mount Merapi’s new eruption has set off longest lava flow since the volcano’s danger level was raised in November.

The eruption started with multiple fissures opening on the walls of Halemaumau Crater.

Falling ash and sulphur blanket several villages on the slopes of Mount Semeru in Java island’s Lumajang district.