Volcanoes Threaten Iceland Infrastructure

Iceland’s Reykjanes volcanic zone is exiting a centuries‑long dormancy, producing frequent eruptions with only minutes-to-hours of reliable warning. Those eruptions are already damaging housing, utilities, and critical facilities (for example Grindavík and services at Keflavík airport) and can send ash plumes into Reykjavik within hours, creating acute public‑health and logistics shocks. — This reframes volcanic activity from a geological curiosity to a sustained civic‑resilience and infrastructure planning problem with implications for tourism, airports, utilities, and health systems.