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

But that process, the USGS says in the Mount St. Helens report, “can continue for many years without an eruption.” Mount St. Helens is the most active volcano in the contiguous United States ...

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

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

A teenager when he began scuba diving in the shadow of Mount St. Helens, he remembers the lake as it was before the May 1980 eruption, before the top 1,300 feet of the volcano—more than three ...

“These trees have their own mycorrhizal fungi that picked up nutrients from the dropped needles and helped fuel rapid tree regrowth,” the paper’s co-author Emma Aronson said of the fungi’s importance, ...

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

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

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 ...

Six years post-experiment, there were 40,000 plants thriving on the gopher plots. The untouched land remained mostly barren.

The explosive eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 blew out the mountain ... The gophers stayed for only about 24 hours before being whisked away. But their visit altered a landscape where ...