By unearthing microbes and fungi, these rodents helped save an ecosystem almost decimated by the eruption of Mount St. Helens ...
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 ...
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 ...
To residents of a certain age, it almost seems like it was yesterday. But Sunday, remarkably, marked the 45th anniversary of a cataclysmic explosion on Mount St. Helens. In a matter of seconds on the ...
A common trait among first responders is the sense to run toward danger as everyone else is fleeing for their lives. On May 18, 1980, Don Prest, a Naches resident, was one of those heading into a ...
Lloyd Staats had an engineer's brain. He was quiet, fact-driven, unflappable, analytic, adaptable. Yet, as the Army Corps of Engineers man worked to remake the region's waterways after the 1980 ...
Wind gusts that stirred up ash around Mount St. Helens in Washington have people asking: Is the sleeping giant awake? The National Weather Service in Portland responded to reports of volcanic ash ...