After the volcanic eruption of 1980, scientists released the burrowing rodents for only a brief time, but their activities ...

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

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

In 1980, the eruption of Mount St. Helens devastated local ecosystems, but an experimental introduction of gophers has ...

Washington state's Mount St. Helens, which is one of the most dangerous ... That incident was extremely rare. While volcanic eruptions can occasionally cause flight disruption, chaos on such ...

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 ...

Iceland's volcanic activity is generally tame compared with explosive eruptions along the Pacific's Ring of Fire. This time, ...

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 ...

STORY: This is Iceland’s Askja volcano, one of the country ... Askja could match that of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington state. Although it is much more likely to be ...

At least 10 people have died as a series of volcanic eruptions widens on the remote Indonesian island of Flores, the country’s National Disaster Management Agency said.