It was 30 years ago tomorrow, May 20, 1980, that Mount St. Helens began to wake from its 123 year slumber. When it finally rested again, Washington state had experienced  the most destructive volcanic eruption in United States histo...

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Click here to download TV listings for the week of Jan. 31 - Feb. 6, in PDF format This week's TV Movies ERUPTION: 'How the Earth Was Made' revisits the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, at 9 p.m. on...

A few weeks ago, Pascal at Research at a Snail's Pace provided an in-depth look at a GSA field trip to Mount St. Helens led by young-earth creationist (YEC) Steve Austin. It has five parts, and is well worth your time, especially o...

The eruption of Mount St. Helens on July 22, 1980, showing an elutriate cloud from pyroclastic flow rising through cloud layer. USGS photo by Jim Vallance, provided by the Field Museum. Fernbank Museum of Natural History announced t...

Researchers say they've found evidence that some explosive peaks are connected via a massive body of partially-molten rock that stretches between Mount St. Helens, Mount Adams and Mount Rainier. The magma chamber would be one of the...

It took all of two made-for-tv volcano flicks in the ’80s (one about Mount St. Helens and the other about Pompeii) to scar me for life. Growing up near one of the world’s most geologically active fault lines wasn’t half as scary as ...

Even if you don’t know what a rhyolitic volcano is, you will certainly have heard of volcanoes like Vesuvius, Krakatoa, Mount St. Helens, and Chaiten - names that have gone down in history for inflicting loss of life and massive dam...

It’s quite a sight watching the fires burn in the mountains just northeast of Los Angeles. During the day, huge plumes of smoke rise as if a new Mount St. Helens has been established in Southern California. And at night, lines of or...

The Mount St Helens eruption of 18 May 1980 created a unique opportunity for scientists to study how a landscape recovers from a major destructive event. To facilitate long-term research the Mount St Helens National Volcanic Monumen...

Over at the Green Inc. blog, readers are sharing their suggestions, which range from Mount St. Helens in Washington state to the woods of western Maine.

A burst of publicity has accompanied the deployment by NASA of high-tech monitoring units called ’spiders’ (consisting of a body containing instruments, supported by eight – no, three – spindly legs) at Mount St Helens. The story is...

There's a new video out for the Seattle-based Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band song "Albatross, Albatross, Albatross". I know, Crave isn't a music blog, but I figured you guys who are really into gear would appreciate the behind-the-scen...

Scientists have placed high-tech "spiders" inside and around the mouth of Mount St. Helens, one of the most active volcanoes in the United States. Networks such as these could one day be used to respond rapidly to an impending erupt...

In order to keep a close eye on Mount St. Helens, the NASA JPL people have built and deployed a bunch of networked “spiderbots” which negotiate a peer-to-peer network between each other in order to pass data back to base. Fifteen sp...

The Associated Press has a piece on how the military is using extreme sports as a form of post-deployment therapy. Secured with elastic cords to a railroad bridge more than 200 feet over a gorge south of Mount St. Helens,...

A dozen stainless steel spiders descended from a helicopter into the crater of Mount St. Helens yesterday. As Seattle’s KOMO News reported, the “pods are small and tough enough to reach places no man dares” to go. Scientists hope th...

One fine day about 74,000 years ago, a giant volcano on Sumatra blew its top. The volcano, named Toba, may have ejected 1000 times more rock and other material than Mount St. Helens in Washington state did in 1980. In the process, i...

Maybe Mt. St. Helens connects to a common hot zone that it shares with Mt. Rainier and Mt. Adams. Graham Hill of GNS Science, an earth and nuclear science institute...

Teens - say goodbye to acne It’s inevitable; right before a big date, prom or graduation, bam, a pimple the size of Mount St. Helens pops up in the most conspicuous place, like a witches wart on the tip of the nose or Cyclopes’ thir...