One day in June 2001, my Nokia phone rang several times. When I finally took the call, it was Gen. Reynaldo Berroya, then ...

BOTOLAN, ZAMBALES, Philippines — Jordan Mangatoleran, an indigenous Aeta, has faint memories of Mt. Pinatubo’s eruption in 1991, but the sight of the crater lake confirms that fateful event which he ...

BOTOLAN, Philippines (AP) _ Thousands of people evacuated villages near Mount Pinatubo on Wednesday as workers prepared to breach the volcano’s crater to drain its brimming lake. Dozens of trucks and ...

On June 15, 1991, the largest land volcano eruption in living history shook the Philippine island of Luzon as Mount Pinatubo, a formerly unassuming lump of jungle-covered slopes, blew its top. Ash ...

Pinatubo, the Philippine volcano that erupted 10 years ago killing hundreds of people, may be about to wreak havoc of a different kind among the people living in its shadow. What’s more, the ...

2001-11-11 04:00:00 PDT Tarukan, Philippines-- This tiny hamlet of aboriginal tribesmen is slowly returning to its prosperous past. Ten years ago, Tarukan was home to hundreds of families of a ...

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 ...

Geologists plan to hack a notch into the crater of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines in a dangerous operation to drain a volcanic lake that threatens nearby villages with mass floods, scientists said.