More information and background on the Volcanism Blog [less]

Flight operations in the European airspace (which in an unprecedented case had been largely closed for 5 consecutive days due to the presence of ash from the eruption) are almost back to normal and slowly, the long queue of stranded passengers around the world are returning to their destination. In the meanwhile the debate about wether European air control authorities and decision makers have been too strict in their measures and "responsible" for the huge (estimated between 1.5-2 billion eur) loss for the airline industry is going on hot.
For a well-balanced discussion, we recommend the following article on Erik Klemetti's excellent Eruptions Blog. [less]

New photos from the ongoing eruption have been posted.
As the ash emission is now low and the original high ash cloud is dispersing, flights through the European airspace are gradually resuming, to the relief of tens of thousands travellers stranded throughout the world. [less]

Tens of thousands of planes - most planes to and within Europe - have been cancelled, causing unprecedented chaos for people travelling all over.
In the meanwhile, we are proud to present a set of new photos of the ash cloud on the glacier taken by our new team member Jorge Santos who is currently at the eruption site. [less]

www.flickr.com/photos/bretscher/sets/72157623824783982/ [less]

VOLCANO DISCOVERY will be present at Stand E53. [less]

observation indicates that the eruption has entered into a magmatic phase, i.e. that fresh magma is rising to the surface. [less]

For those who dream about visiting fascinating Nyiragongo volcano, we offer two group departures in August 2010 and Jan 2011 to allow a small group accompanied by a volcanologist from our team to stay 3 full days on the volcano. [less]