On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted covering the region in ... noticed a line of steam coming from a fracture line atop the growing lava dome in the crater of the southwest Washington ...

One of the most violent natural disasters of our time, the colossal eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980 blasted away an entire mountainside. Over 200 square miles of pristine forest were buried ...

A very common case study for volcanoes is the eruption of Mount St Helens in the USA in 1980. Other case studies include the eruption of Mount Etna in Sicily in 1974 and Heimaey eruption in ...

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

MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. – Researchers studying the aftermath of the massive eruption that led to the widespread destruction ...

When Mount St Helens erupted in 1980, the resulting lava, ash, and debris turned the landscape barren for miles around. It was clear the land would take a long time to recover from the eruption. But ...

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.

Scientists say the pocket gophers were cranky about being moved into a devastated landscape for a day in 1980. But decades ...

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

Mount Saint Helens in Washington, which notoriously and cataclysmically erupted in 1980 and had its ash reach ... have been observed in the past at Mount St. Helens and at other volcanoes and ...

A pocket gopher is seen in its home on a meadow in the Butte Camp area on the southern side of Mount St. Helens in southwest Washington state. Gophers were taken to the northern side, which had ...