New research offers clues as to why Mount St. Helens is one of the most explosive volcanoes in the Cascade range and why it stands apart from the chain of other Cascade volcanoes. Scientists from the ...

Jan. 3—Registration is still open for the Mount St. Helens Institute's 12-week Volcano Naturalist Program, which runs Feb. 4 to April 29. Participants in this program will explore diverse aspects of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 18 marks the 45th anniversary of the catastrophic eruption of Mount St. Helens in southwestern Washington. The blast in 1980 ...

SEATTLE — Mount St. Helens stood silent for over a century in Washington’s Cascade Range, but that all changed 45 years ago when the sleeping giant woke up and erupted into Pacific Northwest history.

Washington state may not have to worry about hurricanes, but it is volcano country. The United States has 161 active volcanoes – all in the western U.S. – but only 18 are classified as a "very high ...

In 1980, Washington State's Mount St Helens erupted, resulting in 57 human deaths, the most ever recorded for a volcanic eruption in the US, and the deaths of thousands of animals in the area. As well ...

Forty-five years ago on May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens in the state of Washington violently erupted. Here’s a look at volcanoes, then and now. The 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption began with a steady ...

Forty years ago, a volcano in the Cascade Mountains in Washington roared, expelling plumes of ash and killing 57 people in the most destructive eruption in modern US history. See 50 photos from the ...

May 18 marks the 45th anniversary of the catastrophic eruption of Mount St. Helens in southwestern Washington. The blast in 1980 killed dozens of people and reshaped the volcanic peak in the Cascade ...