Few people realize, he said, that the hollowed-out crater where lava was flowing just a few years ago now holds the world’s youngest glacier. And if that’s not surprising enough, the ...

There's another feature inside the crater that's often overlooked in this active volcano. It's also a relative rarity: a glacier that's growing in size, not shrinking. The Crater Glacier ...

The only glacier in the West that appears to be growing is Crater Glacier on Mount St. Helens. It’s on the north-facing side of the crater left by the 1980 eruption of the volcano and rapidly ...

the lava dome growing inside and the glacier fed by avalanches of snow and debris from the crater walls. The view on clear days features Mount Adams, Mount Rainier and Spirit Lake on the horizon.

Explorers must crouch as they make their way down from entrance holes at the glacier’s surface, crawling along the steep crater to the main ring nearly 500 feet below. “It takes a minute to ...

The crater was formed when Askja ... A global concern A 2020 study identified 245 volcanoes within a 5 km radius of a glacier. Sources: ‘Global Mapping of Future Glaciovolcanism’ Global ...

On Aug. 15, Wershow conducted environmental research on Bend Glacier meltwater and how it feeds into our canal system. Wershow’s area of focus is Crater Creek Ditch, often called “The Ditch ...