Researchers find gophers responsible for recovery of Mount St. Helens ecosystem
Located in southern Washington state, Mount St. Helens is notorious for its eruption on May 18, 1980. The eruption of ...
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Gophers needed 1 day after Mount St. Helens erupted to bring explosions of new life
Scientists say the pocket gophers were cranky about being moved into a devastated landscape for a day in 1980. But decades ...
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A judge will decide if the owners of a New Zealand volcano where 22 died were unjustly convicted
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A New Zealand judge will decide whether the owners of an island volcano suffered a miscarriage of justice when their company was convicted of failing to keep ...
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How was Hong Kong made? By a really big volcanic eruption
It may be shocking to some, but geologists have confirmed that Hong Kong exists today thanks to an extraordinary volcanic eruption that happened 140 million years ago. It was also one of only ...
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Volcanoes don't cause climate change — but it could be the other way around
A recent report from the Icelandic Meteorological Office suggests that magma is building up underground near a volcano known as Askja, a mountain about the size of Mount St. Helens in Vatnajokull ...
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Why is St. Jude the patron saint of lost causes?
On Oct. 28, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Jude, also known as Thaddeus, one of Jesus’ 12 apostles. He is believed to have written the Letter of Jude, one of the shortest books ...
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NJ once had huge volcano in same county where new fault line resides
New Jersey was once home to a fiery volcano roughly the size of Mount St. Helens – that sits in the same county as a newly mapped fault line. Rutan Hill, in Wantage, NJ, appears to be and is ...
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Rising magma and melting ice: Is climate change lighting a fuse under Iceland's volcanoes?
The crater was formed when Askja, a volcano in Vatnajokull National Park in Iceland ... Askja is capable of one equivalent to that of Mount St. Helens in the US state of Washington in 1980, although ...
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Living on a Volcano’s Edge, Italians Practice for Disaster
Vesuvius isn’t the volcano they’re worried about. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reported from Pozzuoli, Italy A piercing alarm burst from millions of cellphones, a signal to hundreds of thousands of ...
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The puzzle of Spirit Lake has Pacific Northwesterners still dealing with Mount St. Helens eruption 44 years later
Thousands of logs were washed into Spirit Lake after the eruption of Mount St. Helens and have stayed there ... And while the water was toxic with volcanic gasses after the eruption, it is now ...
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N.J. has a volcano. Seriously! Here’s what you need to know.
That’s about when the Beemerville Volcano erupted in Wantage, give or take six million years, according to geologists. So much about New Jersey is familiar — the Jersey Shore, traffic jug ...
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Could Iceland’s melting glaciers intensify volcanic eruptions?
STORY: This is Iceland’s Askja volcano, one of the country’s most ... Askja could match that of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington state. Although it is much more likely ...