For 600 years, Mount Pinatubo appeared to be sleeping. Towering 1745 meters (5725 feet) over the Philippine island of Luzon, the seemingly dormant volcano showed no signs of an impending catastrophic ...

The largest volcanic eruption in recent history, the blast of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, affected climate around the world, causing temperatures to drop and Asian rain patterns to shift ...

In June 1991, Mount Pinatubo, a volcanic peak on the Philippine Island of Luzon, literally blew its top. It was the second-most powerful volcanic eruption of the 20th century, ten times stronger than ...

If you'd been on the Philippines island of Luzon on June 15, 1991, you'd have been forgiven for thinking that the world was ending. Typhoon Yunya was screaming across the island, but the angry skies ...

Mount Pinatubo erupted with devastating force in June 1991, and now the Philippines volcano is proving to be an ideal laboratory for studying the "hydrologic aftermath" of a volcanic ...

CABALANTIAN VILLAGE, Philippines (Reuters Life!) - For Corazan Zawal, memories of the devastation caused by Mount Pinatubo remain etched in her mind. The massive eruption in June 1991 sent volcanic ...

HOW can something that claimed hundreds of lives, damaged thousands of properties, and displaced the indigenous Aeta people produce something as beautiful as a crater lake? This is Mount Pinatubo, an ...

Mt. Pinatubo's 500-year dormancy ended in early April 1991. For weeks, the volcano sent warning puffs of gas and ash into the air above the island of Luzon in the Philippines. Scientists monitoring ...

When Mount Pinatubo exploded in 1990, the surrounding Philippine ecosystem was devastated. Scientists thought that the Pinatubo volcano mouse that lived there went extinct. But researchers just ...

Erupting volcanoes are among the most destructive forces in Mother Nature's arsenal. But where many people live on or near the flanks of such mountains, the real disaster often doesn't start until the ...