Blazing the Trail – Examining International Cooperation during Mt Pinatubo’s Eruption

“The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.” Bertrand Russell. In my previous posts on this series, I discussed the causes and how outdoor air quality and the health problem that arose from Mt Pinatubo’s eruption. For today, I will base my discussions and analysis based on this documentary on Mt Pinatubo’s eruption: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x90v_cpAZI8 …

A Hot Mess – Examining Health Problems Arising from Mt Pinatubo’s Eruption

“A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.” Oliver Goldsmith. Now that we have looked at some of the causes and events leading up to Mt Pinatubo’s eruption and how the outdoor air quality in the Philippines and all around the world has been affected by the eruption in our previous post, …

Feeling the Burn – Examining Outdoor Air Quality Affected by Mt Pinatubo’s Eruption

“It is spectacular to watch an erupting volcano; but it is even much more spectacular to watch the rise of a newly exploding revolutionary idea!”Mehmet Murat ildan. I think to those of you who have watched some of the videos in my previous post, you would recall mental images of the Mt Pinatubo eruption looking …

Catching Fire – Examining the Causes and Events Leading up to Mt Pinatubo’s Eruption

“I noticed that volcanoes, earthquakes and floods, though are not good events, they are better than the silence of good people when bad people take the podium. The latter is to an extent uncontrollable, but the former can be stopped.” Israelmore Ayivor. Mt Pinatubo’s eruption was considered the second-largest volcanic eruption in the 20th century, …

A Hot Button Issue – A Prelude to Mt Pinatubo’s Eruption

“Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes.”Andrea Gibson. In my previous series, I discussed and analysed the case study on Southeast Asian transboundary haze pollution – generally a man-made seasonal environment problem. Today, I will be starting another series that would be focusing more on Mt Pinatubo’s volcanic …