How an Icelandic volcanic eruption grounded most of the world!

What a catastrophe! Can you imagine being stuck because you plane can't take off due to a volcanic cloud? Well here is some news about it .... Enjoy and above all be patient ; no one knows exactly how long this situation is going to last!

Thanks to Christine Reymond, Infonews , for this work .

First, on Youtube, a video of the beginning of the eruption and how to pronounce the name of the volcano

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7NamDwfXvk

About volcanoes a picture of a volcanic erruption

http://www.eahall.pvusd.net/staff/Cloud/images/VolcanoStructure.jpg

How it works

http://www.howstuffworks.com/volcano.htm

Texts about the present situation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_eruption_of_Eyjafjallajökull

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/04/201041851641248609.html

Technical : tracking the cloud

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/tracking-the-volcanic-ash-cloud/

Special reports

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8627545.stm http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/iceland/eyjafjallajokull/index.html http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/04/16/iceland-ash-european-flights.html

Animations

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7533964.stm

Vidéoshow to travel terrestrially

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8626897.stm?ls

Technical (for earth sciences and meteorology

http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/science_technology/volcano+ash+keeps+uk+planes+grounded/3617087 and lots of videos in the special reports...