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

Six years post-experiment, there were 40,000 plants thriving on the gopher plots. The untouched land remained mostly barren.

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

When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980 ... Two years after the eruption, they tested this theory. "They're often considered pests, but we thought they would take old soil, move it to the surface ...

It would probably pretty alarming to learn that, in the early 1980s, scientists decided to drop off a bunch of gophers at the ...

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

A unique experiment involving gophers at Mount St. Helens has shown long-lasting benefits for ecological recovery, with significant increases in plant life and sustained soil health over 40 years. In ...

Scientists say the pocket gophers were cranky about being moved into a devastated landscape for a day in 1980. But decades ...

A new study reveals that an unconventional ecological intervention tactic is still providing benefits 40 years later After the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens devastated the local environment ...

In 1980, the eruption of Mount St. Helens devastated local ecosystems, covering 22,000 square miles with 540 million tons of ...