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

In the summer of 1831, strange things began to happen in the skies over Europe and North America. The sun shimmered blue and ...

History has seen some monstrous volcanic eruptions, from Mount Pinatubo's weather-cooling burp to the explosion of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai on the island nation of Tonga. The power of such ...

A massive volcanic eruption can propel sulfur dioxide ... satellite data shows how much sulfur dioxide is released. When Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted in 1991, it propelled roughly ...

Its last major eruption was in 1944. Mount Pinatubo is located on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. Before its 1991 eruption, it was relatively unknown and unmonitored. What Type of Volcano Is ...

Volcanic ash is typically a mixture of crushed ... into space and causing global temperatures to cool. In 1991, Mount Pinatubo – another stratovolcano – erupted in the Philippines and produced ...

The eruption of Vesuvius was only a VEI 5, while Krakatoa's 1883 eruption and Mount Pinatubo in 1991 were VEI 6. Yellowstone is considered a VEI 8. Trees around the volcano were flattened by the ...

In 1991, when Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines blew its top, aerosols spewed by this mighty volcanic blast lowered global temperatures by about 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit (0.5 degrees Celsius ...

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 ...