Icelandic volcano spews ash, smoke and steam

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A dense ash cloud from the volcano Grimsvotn blew toward Scotland on Monday, causing airlines to cancel flights and raising fears of a repeat of last year’s huge travel disruptions.

May 25, 2011 Smoke billows from the Grimsvotn volcano, under the Vatnajokull glacier in southeast Iceland. The Icelandic volcano, which disrupted hundreds of flights in northern Europe, is no longer spewing out ash and the eruption seems to have halted, weather officials said Wednesday. Agust Gudbjornsson/Reuters

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