MORTON, Wash. - An earthquake struck near Morton, Washington Wednesday morning. According to the United States Geological ...

A minor earthquake was detected near Morton, Washington, on Wednesday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The ...

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 ...

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.

According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake happened around 7:52 a.m. north of Mount St. Helens, just west of Spirit Lake. USGS equipment recorded the earthquake at a depth ...

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

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

A team of American scientists sought to learn whether an American team of burrowing rodents could help restore Mount St ...

“These trees have their own mycorrhizal fungi that picked up nutrients from the dropped needles and helped fuel rapid tree regrowth,” the paper’s co-author Emma Aronson said of the fungi’s importance, ...

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