Mount St. Helens and the Worst Volcano Eruption in U.S. History

It was small by volcanic standards, but massive by human ones: on this day in 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted in what the ...
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Mount St. Helens eruption: Never-before-published photos

Peggy Short-Nottage and her husband joined sightseers rushing to Mount St. Helens when volcanic activity escalated in the spring of 1980. Instead of hopping in a car and making the drive to ...

43 Years Ago, Scientists Dropped Gophers Onto a Volcano. Today, They’re Tiny Heroes.

It started as a go-for-broke experiment, but it wound up saving an ecosystem.
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Mount St. Helens: Remembering the deadliest U.S. eruption 39 years later

Autopsies showed that most of the people killed in the eruption likely died from asphyxiation after inhaling hot ash, according to the USGS. Truman, who owned a lodge on Spirit Lake for more than 50 ...
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Potential hazard connected to Mount St. Helens eruption still poses a risk

Nothing can be done to prevent another Mount St. Helens eruption, but federal agencies believe there is a way to prevent a similar disaster from a hazard left behind from the 1980 eruption. The ...