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 ...

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 ...

After the volcanic eruption of 1980, scientists released the burrowing ... With pressure suddenly removed from the magma below, Mount St. Helens spewed lava, ash and debris in the southwestern ...

When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, lava incinerated anything living ... Two years after the eruption, they tested this theory. "They're often considered pests, but we thought they would ...

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

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

A pocket gopher is seen in its home on a meadow in the Butte Camp area on the southern side of Mount St. Helens in southwest Washington state. Gophers were taken to the northern side, which had ...

“These trees have their own mycorrhizal fungi that picked up nutrients from the dropped needles and helped fuel rapid tree ...

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 ...