Two years after the eruption of Mount St Helens, local gophers were sent to the area in what must have been quite a confusing ...

Mount St. Helen's, September, 1980. Photo: Landsat The red color in the early images of Mount St ... take nitrogen from the air instead of the soil. Mount St. Helen's, 2011.

When Mount St. Helens erupted ... the scientists visited a forest that had been clearcut prior to the eruption. Logging had removed all the trees for acres, so naturally there were no dropped needles ...

Mount St. Helen was still snowcapped in May when it erupted. The scorching heat turned ice and snow into gushing water that took rocks and soil with ... from the USDA Forest Service started ...

New images reveal ... “If a handful of forest soil already contains so many different virus particles,” he says, “this is clearly just the very tip of the viral Mount Everest.” ...

At the base of Mount Fuji is a dense, verdant forest. From above ... growing on top of the dried lava that once flowed there. The soil has a high iron content which interferes with GPS and ...