The Pinatubo volcano has erupted explosively, sending a towering ash plume high into the atmosphere, capturing the attention ...

At the more explosive end of the scale are Plinian eruptions. These include the famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, ...

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 ...

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 ...

What humanity and planet Earth need right now is for an eruption like Mount Pinatubo in 1991 to occur. This eruption injected significant quantities of dust and aerosols into the upper layers of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...