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

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

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

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

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

When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980 ... On one side of the mountain was an old-growth forest. Ash from the volcano blanketed the trees, trapping solar radiation and causing needles on the ...

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

MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. – Researchers studying the aftermath of ... but these levels fall well within the volcano’s normal ...

The Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources has reapproved legislation that increased monitoring of Washington's five ...

(Credit: Dr Mike Cassidy) (CN) — Knowing the history of tragedies like Pompeii, Krakatoa or Mount St. Helens, volcanic eruptions, of all the natural disasters, might seem to be the most inescapable.

Yes, huge, prolonged volcanic eruptions could happen again ... However, effective monitoring led to the correct prediction of ...

It starts with the eruption of Mount St. Helens in May of 1980. It was the most destructive volcanic event in American history, claiming 57 lives and causing staggering ecological damage.