A very common case study for volcanoes is the eruption of Mount St Helens in the USA in 1980. Other case studies include the eruption of Mount Etna in Sicily in 1974 and Heimaey eruption in ...

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.

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

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 ...

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

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

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