Did you know the Ring of Fire, a horseshoe-shaped zone around the Pacific Ocean, has about 750 to 915 active or dormant ...

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

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

Sometimes it is hard to compare the eruptions of remote volcano to potential blasts at more well-known volcanoes. I try to ...

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

The January 15 eruption had a Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) rating of at least VEI-5, roughly on par with historic ...

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

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

microbiologist Michael Allen of the University of California, Riverside, another study author, said in a news release about the researchers' return to the volcano. A stripe of gopher-visited land in ...

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.

said in a news release about the researchers' return to the volcano. A stripe of gopher-visited land in the Pumice Plain area of Mount St. Helens is thick with vegetation, while surrounding areas ...