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

When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, lava incinerated anything living for miles around. As an experiment, scientists ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The human-engineered tunnel that drains Spirit Lake on Mount St. Helens is buckling because of geological activity. If ...

On May 18, 1980, the eruption of Mount St. Helens emitted 1.5 million metric tons of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere while its pyroclastic lava flow incinerated virtually everything within a ...

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

Mount St. Helens’ Johnston Ridge Observatory will remain closed to the public until at least 2026 due to road repairs on ...

Inspectors recently checked the integrity of a tunnel that drains water out of Spirit Lake near Mount St. Helens. In the ...