Eruption

The eruption is looking less fun to me. It's gone from being a Hawaiian-style photogenic lava fountain to being explosive. That's steam and ash and maybe poison gas you are looking at. The plume rises more than 30,000 feet.

The Icelandic government has evacuated farm families in the area and there has been some rescuing of sheep. But no one in the country seems very worried by this particular volcano. It's the next one over, which usually erupts at the same time, that makes people uneasy. Let...