Iceland volcanic ash disrupts flights

Smoke and steam above the volcano at Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier. The second eruption in less than a month has melted ice, shooting smoke and steam into the air and forcing hundreds of people to flee rising floodwaters Photograph: Brynjar Gauti/AP Photograph: Brynjar Gauti/guardian.co.uk A false colour infrared image showing Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano Photograph: NASA/JPL/EO-1 Mission/GSFC/Ashle/PA Photograph: NASA/JPL/EO-1 Mission/GSFC/Ashle/guardian.co.uk The ash plume of the erupting Eyjafjallajokull volcano Photograph: Ingolfur Juliusson/Reuters Photograph: Ingolfur Juliusson/guardian.co.uk The crater of the volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier Photograph: AP Photograph: guardian.co.uk A natural colour satellite image from 24 March of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano Photograph: NASA/PA Photograph: NASA/guardian.co.uk A broken section of Iceland's main coastal ring road near Reykjavik after melt water from the volcano caused river levels to rise by up to 3 metres Photograph: Brynjar Gauti/AP Photograph: Brynjar Gauti/guardian.co.uk A boy lies on mattresses at the South Iceland Care Centre after hundreds of residents were forced to leave their homes Photograph: Brynjar Gauti/AP Photograph: Brynjar Gauti/guardian.co.uk An emergency worker records a driver's details after hundreds of residents were forced to leave their homes Photograph: Brynjar Gauti/AP Photograph: Brynjar Gauti/guardian.co.uk Lava spurting out of the eruption site Photograph: Halldor Kolbeins/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Halldor Kolbeins/guardian.co.uk Lava spurting out of the volcano Photograph: Halldor Kolbeins/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Halldor Kolbeins/guardian.co.uk Lava spews out of a mountain in Hvolsv llur, Iceland, on 21 March Photograph: Fir Kjartansson/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Fir Kjartansson/guardian.co.uk Passengers wait in Manchester airport after all non-emergency UK flights were cancelled. Similar measures have been taken across much of Europe Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters Photograph: Phil Noble/guardian.co.uk An image from Nasa's Terra satellite shows the volcanic ash plume travelling from Iceland to the north of the UK Photograph: NEODAAS/University of Dundee/PA Photograph: NEODAAS/University of Dundee/guardian.co.uk The Welcome to Belfast greeting has a hollow ring about it at Belfast international airport Photograph: Paul Mcerlane/EPA Photograph: Paul Mcerlane/guardian.co.uk Planes sit on the tarmac at Gatwick airport Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Photograph: Dan Kitwood/guardian.co.uk A stranded passenger in terminal 3 of Copenhagen airport, Denmark Photograph: Peter Hove Olesen/AP Photograph: Peter Hove Olesen/guardian.co.uk A motorway sign in Glasgow warns of flight cancellations Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/guardian.co.uk Grounded planes at Heathrow, London Photograph: Felipe Trueba/EPA Photograph: Felipe Trueba/guardian.co.uk Passengers wait at Faro airport in Portugal after flights were cancelled Photograph: Luis Forra/EPA Photograph: Luis Forra/guardian.co.uk A woman in the empty departure hall of Bristol airport Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images Photograph: Matt Cardy/guardian.co.uk A detail of an enchanced colour satellite image highlighting the ash plume moving towards the UK Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images Photograph: Matt Cardy/guardian.co.uk A new volcanic fissure near Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano sends a plume of ash and steam skyward Photograph: Nasa/Reuters Photograph: Nasa/guardian.co.uk Volcanic ash rises from a crater under about 200 metres of ice at the Eyjafjallajokull glacier Photograph: Reuters Photograph: guardian.co.uk A girl sleeps in the departure lounge at Gatwick airport Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Photograph: Dan Kitwood/guardian.co.uk Terminal 5 at Heathrow airport is eerily quiet after most flights in and out of the UK were grounded Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA Photograph: Steve Parsons/guardian.co.uk A grounded plane at Heathrow airport Photograph: David Levene Photograph: guardian.co.uk