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

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.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

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. The ...