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

A man who ended up being consumed by a volcanic eruption left behind some devastating final words as he watched it come ...

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

Located in southern Washington state, Mount St. Helens is notorious for its eruption on May 18, 1980. The eruption of ...

It would probably pretty alarming to learn that, in the early 1980s, scientists decided to drop off a bunch of gophers at the ...

The eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 scattered roughly 540 million tons of ash over an area of more than 22,000 square ...

A team of American scientists sought to learn whether an American team of burrowing rodents could help restore Mount St ...

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

Like something straight out of a Disney movie, a new study reveals how gophers worked to save Mount St. Helens after the 1980 ...

When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980 ... Two years after the eruption, they tested this theory. "They're often considered pests, but we thought they would take old soil, move it to the surface ...

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 ...

Just two years earlier, a cataclysm erased life in the landscape. The explosive eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 blew out the mountain's northern flank and destroyed some 135 square miles of ...