ST HELENS, Wash — Engineers who spent the days and years following the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens working on the recovery of the region, returned Tuesday to check in on some of their work.

What can a pocket gopher do against a volcano? At Mount St. Helens, the answer may be far more than anyone expected. A study of the mountain’s recovering soils suggests that one brief gopher ...

ST HELENS, Wash. — When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, hundreds of square miles surrounding the volcano were flattened. Scientists describe the destruction as “moonscaped,” and at the time, it was ...

Every ecosystem is complex and unique. In some places, specific plants, animals, fungi, or bacteria will have a dramatic effect on how the other things in the area will live. Most of the time, if one ...

A team of American scientists sought to learn whether an American team of burrowing rodents could help restore Mount St Helens after her 1980 eruption. Mount St Helens four months after the 18 May ...

A new, high-definition film highlighting the return to life of the area around Mount St. Helens will debut at the Johnston Ridge Observatory later this month. "We're excited to have a new film and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980, it caused enormous devastation. The eruption triggered mudslides, an explosion, and ...

Virginia Dale was in the first helicopter load of ecologists to land at Mount St. Helens after it erupted 25 years ago this month. "I just remember how bizarre it was going out into that landscape," ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published in May 2018. Peggy Short-Nottage and her husband joined sightseers rushing to Mount St. Helens when volcanic activity escalated in the spring of 1980 ...