Discover El Hierro, the Canary Islands' hidden gem. While Tenerife and Lanzarote face overtourism, this UNESCO site offers ...

The small island has a population of just 11,000 and is said to be much less visited than its better-known neighbours.

A holiday island popular with Britons is preparing for a mass evacuation because of a possible volcanic eruption. Experts have recorded 150 tremors on El Hierro, the smallest of the Canary Islands, ...

VALVERDE, Spain (Reuters) - El Hierro, a small island in the Atlantic Ocean, is Europe's latest frontline in the struggle to cut irregular migration. Nearly twice as many migrants as residents have ...

In the arid southwest of El Hierro, against a backdrop of inhospitable mountain plains scorched yellow by the blazing sun above, lies El Sabinar. Bent uncomfortably, with its twisted branches ...

Pieces of sediment from the Cretaceous period encased in lava floated to the surface with the underwater eruption of El Hierro in 2011, bringing scientists valuable data on the islands' ocean floor.

While Tenerife, Lanzarote and Gran Canaria suffer under the weight of too many tourists, this Canary Island remains largely ...

In the past week, over 550 earthquakes have struck the Atlantic Ocean On Friday, a 5.1-magnitude quake hit the southern tip of El Hierro This seismic activity suggests an underwater volcano could soon ...

This image made available on Nov. 4 shows volcanic activity on Nov. 3 from an underwater volcano at El Hierro island coast, Canary Islands, Spain. Canary Regional Government Han It may be just a ...

El Hierro is the tiny western outpost of Spain’s Canary Islands, a place of lava cliffs, laurel forests and natural rock ...

It could eventually rise from the sea to create a new part of the archipelago. Oct. 30, 2011— -- What would the island be called? And who would own it? Spewing magma and growing in height, an ...

INVOLCAN, the Volcanological Institute of the Canaries, along with PEVOLCA (the Civil Protection Plan for Volcanic Risk), has raised the alert status in parts of El Hierro to "Yellow" after increasing ...