A team of American scientists sought to learn whether an American team of burrowing rodents could help restore Mount St Helens after her 1980 eruption.
The recent re-opening of the popular public golf course at Wairakei Resort Taupō is something of a triumph for the facility’s ...
The eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 scattered roughly 540 million tons of ash over an area of more than 22,000 square ...
W hen Mount St Helens erupted in 1980, the resulting lava, ash, and debris turned the landscape barren for miles around. It ...
A bustling port city of close to 20,000 people, Pompeii was buried beneath 20 feet of ash and pumice, which preserved its ...
Authorities at Pompeii in southern Italy are introducing a daily limit of 20,000 visitors as part of efforts to protect the ...
In 1980, the eruption of Mount St. Helens devastated local ecosystems, but an experimental introduction of gophers has ...
Scientists released gophers onto a plot of land two years after the eruption obliterated the landscape—and the results were ...
Drawing on multiple studies demonstrating that it is possible to retrieve DNA from both human and animal remains in Pompeii, ...
By 1983, the areas around Mount St. Helens chosen for the gopher experiment were heaps of "collapsing slabs of porous pumice.
Ash and volcanic rock called pumice then covered Pompeii and its residents, preserving scenes of the victims of the city’s ...
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. The ...