From the ashes: Life returns to Kasatochi volcano

Two months after the eruption, Kasatochi Island looked like the moon. (Photo: Jerry Morris)The news may sound familiar: There’s a volcano erupting in the Aleutian chain that’s a refuge for marine mammals and sea birds. But it isn’t Bogoslof, it’s Kasatochi — a volcano near Adak that erupted for the first time in modern memory in 2008. That eruption has given scientists the opportunity to study how life returns after cataclysmic destruction.
Kasatochi Islan