That's nearly four times the amount of water vapor estimated to enter the stratosphere from the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption in the Philippines. Scientists say that the unprecedented plume ...

Pinatubo’s 1991 eruption and the resilience of the people.” The special day, a Thursday, was requested by Pampanga Gov. Dennis Pineda, according to a copy of Proclamation No. 234, which was ...

When Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted in 1991, it propelled roughly 15 million tons into the stratosphere. This wasn’t a massive eruption like Tambora, but it still cooled the world by ...

Volcanic eruptions contributed to the collapse of dynasties in China in the last 2,000 years by temporarily cooling the climate and affecting agriculture, according to a Rutgers coauthored study ...

Scientists have seen ozone concentrations decrease after a volcanic eruption — but never at this scale. After the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption, researchers saw ozone concentrations decrease in ...

But the water vapor from the 2008 Kasatochi event in Alaska and the 2015 Calbuco eruption in Chile dissipated rather quickly.Typically, powerful volcanic eruptions like Mount Pinatubo or the 1883 ...

Tonga expelled approximately 441,000 tons (400,000 metric tons) of sulfur dioxide, about 2% of the amount spewed by Mount Pinatubo during the 1991 eruption. But unlike Pinatubo (and most big ...