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

BOTOLAN, Zambales — With mostly sunny days and balmy weather this month, Zambales officially opened its Mt. Pinatubo adventure season to entice visitors to discover and experience what is billed here ...

BOTOLAN, Philippines (AP) _ Thousands of people evacuated villages near Mount Pinatubo on Wednesday as workers prepared to breach the volcano’s crater to drain its brimming lake. Dozens of trucks and ...

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 ...

HOW can something that claimed hundreds of lives, damaged thousands of properties, and displaced the indigenous Aeta people produce something as beautiful as a crater lake? This is Mount Pinatubo, an ...

Pinatubo, the Philippine volcano that erupted 10 years ago killing hundreds of people, may be about to wreak havoc of a different kind among the people living in its shadow. What’s more, the ...

Geologists plan to hack a notch into the crater of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines in a dangerous operation to drain a volcanic lake that threatens nearby villages with mass floods, scientists said.

This image from the Sentinel-1A radar satellite on 6 June shows part of the Philippine island of Luzon with Mount Pinatubo. This active volcano experienced a major eruption on 15 June 1991 that ...