Iceland’s Volcanoes erupting

Grímsvötn volcano erupting on May 21.

Six more volcanoes lie underneath Vatnajökull, Europe’s largest ice cap (in addition to Grímsvötn).

Most of them are active.   Photograph Egill Adalsteinsson

Ash clouds in the sky over Iceland’s Vatnajökull ice cap on May 22.   Photograph Jóhann Ingi Jónsson