By the time Pinatubo's climactic eruption ended, a snowlike blanket of ash at least a half-inch (1 centimeter) thick coated 4,660 square miles (7,500 square km) of the island of Luzon.

When Mt. Pinatubo erupted in 1991, it was a truly catastrophic event. Its gasses spread across the globe, and led to measurable cooling.

Ash, smoke and mayhem descended onto Clark Air Base when nearby Mount Pinatubo erupted three decades ago in the Philippines. In the hours after the eruption on June 15, 1991, Susan Kreifels, Stars ...

One such critter was Apomys sacobianus, the Pinatubo volcano mouse, which spent its days hunting for earthworms and other foods. On June 15, 1991, the apocalypse befell paradise.

For 600 years, Mount Pinatubo appeared to be sleeping. Towering 1745 meters (5725 feet) over the Philippine island of Luzon, the seemingly dormant volcano showed no signs of an impending ...

Twenty years after Pinatubo, LiveScience is reliving the largest eruption in the modern era based on what we know now. Join us each day through June 15 for a blow-by-blow account of what happened.

When the volcano came back to life in 1990-1991, it had likely been ~540 years since Pinatubo's last eruption. That's before any European had set foot on the island, so all the cultural history of ...

The eruption killed hundreds, forced the United States to close Clark Air Force base in Angeles City near Pinatubo, destroyed 207,862 acres of agricultural land and wiped out entire villages such ...

Move over Monet. Here comes Mount Pinatubo. Using a highly corrosive acid as pigment, a dreamy impressionist style and a canvas as sweeping as the horizon, the Philippine volcano has begun painting… ...