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

Today marks the 20th anniversary of one of the most significant eruptions (video - archived from news broadcasts) of the last century (or more) - the 1991 eruption of Pinatubo in the Philippines. The ...

In 1991, a massive eruption at Mount Pinatubo decimated natural old-growth forests, likely resulting in the natural local extinction of several species, a study notes. But surveys carried out 20 years ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Ever since he could remember, Keith Johnson has dreamed of seeing the world. A bright student, he graduated high school a year early, the same year his older sister did. Having ...

Filipinos pondered if they should move to shelters. Some lived along riverbeds where deadly pyroclastic flows and thick mud streams called lahars would roll down from the mountainside at high speeds, ...

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 ...

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) confirmed that a "weak explosion" was recorded at Mt. Pinatubo between 12:09 pm and 12:13 pm on Tuesday (November 30, 2021). The ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines — A “weak explosion” was recorded at Mount Pinatubo past noon, state volcanologists said Tuesday. “The Pinatubo Volcano Network recorded seismic and infrasound signals of a weak ...