In the 2nd Century, Greek mathematician and astronomer Ptolemy put El Hierro on the map after declaring that the prime meridian was here at Orchilla, the westernmost point of the island that was ...

Now, the locale is putting itself on the map for another reason ... Historically, the geographic conditions of El Hierro, as a remote island, have made it a training ground for self-sufficiency.

WE'VE all heard of the classic Canary Islands of Tenerife, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, but El Hierro often flies under the radar. The tiny island off the coast of Africa welcomed just 20,000 ...

Residents of La Restinga on the island of El Hierro were recently evacuated after ... Volcanoes] "This is the first time we're able to map [a volcano] so early," said Juan Acosta, principal ...

It actually takes quite a lot of fossil fuel power to reach the tiny Spanish island of El Hierro. You have to catch a commercial jet flight, a propeller plane and then a ferry to reach what was ...

Looks like 2012 is trying to start out busy - we got an impressive eruption of Etna the other day and now it seems that El Hierro is showing renewed vigor (see below). New video from INVOLCAN and ...

Seismic activity only a mile off the coastline turns the water surrounding El Hierro Island bright green El Hierro Island, the smallest of the Canary Islands, has experienced about 10,000 ...

Upon completion of its next wind farm in June, the island of El Hierro (one of Spain’s Canary Islands off the coast of Africa) will become the first in the world to be fully powered by wind and ...

The Spanish island of El Hierro has begun to move to the east and part of it have risen 11 centimeters in height as a result of the recent seismic activity it has experienced, a local media report ...