In memory of former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday, we are rerunning this history column documenting his visit to ...

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 ...

“High rates of seismicity, interpreted as recharge, have been observed in the past at Mount St. Helens and at other volcanoes ...

An undersea volcano off the Oregon coast will likely erupt in 2025, and scientists can use the lessons learned from ...

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 ...

When Mount St Helens erupted in 1980, the resulting lava, ash, and debris turned the landscape barren for miles around. It was clear the land would take a long time to recover from the eruption.

moments before the blast hit ... area that was affected by the eruption. His words proved prophetic, as in 1982 President Ronald Reagan created the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument ...

On May 18th, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted killing 57 people and ... The Columbian has written about every aspect of the eruption — the people who died, including Columbian photographer Reid ...

The Mount St. Helens Institute is experimenting with a new leadership structure by appointing two co-executive directors to ...

On June 14, 1914, three men climbed Lassen Peak to see why a seemingly dormant volcano had started rumbling 16 days before ... Until Mount St. Helens blew in 1980, Lassen's eruption was the ...

President Carter visited Washington state several times, most notably in 1980, flying here four times with trips connected to ...