One of the most violent natural disasters of our time, the colossal eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980 blasted away an entire mountainside. Over 200 square miles of pristine forest were buried ...

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

Before the gopher drop-off, only about a dozen plants were reported to have emerged from the pumice slabs that Mount St.

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 ...

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 minor earthquake was detected near Morton, Washington, on Wednesday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

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

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 ...

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.

It will be years before people will be able to reach some of the views, trails and a visitor center at Mount St. Helens.