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 ...

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

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

When Mount St Helens erupted in 1980, the resulting lava, ash, and debris turned the landscape barren for miles around. It ...

St. Helens’ mountain recovery shows how gophers and fungi revived barren land. They spurred long-lasting ecological regrowth ...

“High rates of seismicity, interpreted as recharge, have been observed in the past at Mount St. Helens and at other volcanoes and can continue for many years without an eruption,” 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 ...

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. The ...

In 1980, the eruption of Mount St. Helens devastated local ecosystems, but an experimental introduction of gophers has ...

Thousands of logs were washed into Spirit Lake after the eruption of Mount St. Helens and have stayed there for 44 years. Courtesy of US Forest Service Meanwhile, Spirit Lake continues to settle ...

Over 400 earthquakes have been detected near Mount St. Helens since mid-July, but the United States Geological Survey says that it isn’t something to worry about. Read more: https://www.koin.com ...