After the volcanic eruption of 1980, scientists released the burrowing rodents for only a brief time, but their activities ...

Scientists released gophers onto a plot of land two years after the eruption obliterated the landscape—and the results were ...

The trees were evidence of a past eruption—a sign ... Highway and past the shuttered Coldwater center to an overlook, then heading back to Interstate 5. Some hope for a Mount St. Helens National ...

W hen Mount St Helens erupted in 1980, the resulting lava, ash, and debris turned the landscape barren for miles around. It ...

St. Helens’ mountain recovery shows how gophers and fungi revived barren land. They spurred long-lasting ecological regrowth ...

Mount Saint Helens in Washington, which notoriously and cataclysmically erupted in 1980 and had its ash reach Montana, has been showing major signs of ... “to pave seven highway lanes three ...

Andy Goodwin recently stationed himself at the top of Mount St. Helens, where he usually spends ... the cornice to gaze into the crater and take photos or sit on the exposed rim, like the two ...

Following several recent rim failures, two cornice breaks and the death of an experienced climber on Mount St. Helens, the U.S. Forest Service is asking climbers to stay away from the rim and ...

A very common case study for volcanoes is the eruption of Mount St Helens in the USA in 1980 ... Heimaey eruption in Iceland in 1973. The first sign of activity began in the spring of 1980 ...

When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, lava incinerated anything living for miles around. As an experiment, scientists dropped gophers onto parts of the scorched mountain for only 24 hours. The ...

On May 18, 1980, the eruption of Mount St. Helens emitted 1.5 million metric tons of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere while its pyroclastic lava flow incinerated virtually everything within a ...