Travel - The glacier born of fire. Blast zone When Mount St Helens, a volcano in southern Washington state, violently erupted in May 1980, it took 57 lives and carved a swath of destruction across the Pacific Northwest. The equivalent of one million Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of rock, ash and debris blasted from the mountain’s summit. Biologists feared that the eruption’s power and heat were enough to sterilise all of the fertile ground in its wake. Yet 35 years later, the blast zone is on the mend and harbouring a surprising amount of life: lupins are flowering, alders are repopulating the stream banks and elk herds have returned. Meanwhile, at the blast’s epicentre – the crater of St Helens – an unexpected transformation is taking place: the birth of a glacier.
Kwajalein Underwater Home. Uko Gorter Natural History Illustration. Art & Science Journa... | Issue two | MagCloud. BLUE VERTIGO | Web Design Resources Links | Last update AUG.04.2014. Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and Technology. Organization for Tropical Studies. Wildlife wonders - creatures up close. 22 January 2014Last updated at 23:38 From giant crocodiles and hungry polar bears to spellbound sharks and inquisitive monkeys - the Natural History Museum has brought together a stunning selection of images taken over more than three decades by 10 of the world's greatest nature photographers.
From evocative artistry to intimate insights, look at some of the photos in the book - The Masters of Nature Photography - with editor Roz Kidman Cox. Continue reading the main story To see the enhanced content on this page, you need to have JavaScript enabled and Adobe Flash installed. All images have been honoured in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition and are subject to copyright. Click bottom right for image information. Music by KPM Music. Related: Natural History Museum More audio slideshows: Garden glory through a lens Top travel photos from around the world Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2013. Uko Gorter Natural History Illustration. Madeline von Foerster. Arctic digital cinematography.