Latest news from Iceland:
Volcanic eruption in Grimsvötn, under Vatnajökull glacier!!!
Fourth eruption in ten years, thereof third in this most active volcano of Iceland.
Nothing big. Probably will be over in two weeks time. We're not evacuating Reykjavik... (the eruption is ca 200km from the capital, for the information of non-icelanders...)
The melt of glacier ice will most likely cause a flood, though. The flood following the 1996 eruption washed away 30km of roads and three bridges. But no harm to people is expected, as long as they keep people off this strip of road.

Imagine the foreigners stuck at the dam construction site at Kárahnjúkar. Their village appeared from nowhere one and a half years ago in the middle of the completely desert icelandic highlands and it is probably the human habitation which is closest to the volcano. Last winter was harsh, cold and long. Most of the workers and their families are used to the nature being milder, - giving, instead of unforgiving. And as if the upcoming, unpromising winter wasn't enough, the glacier next to them opens up to spit out fire and a 13km high smoke column.
Little did they know when they were lured into coming to this god forsaken island. Now they probably wish they had never heard of the place.