This story appears in the May 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Washington’s Mount Rainier boasts the largest collection of glaciers on a single peak in the contiguous United States.

The sediment from this glacial melt has also added soil to the park’s rivers, raising their elevation and increasing the risk of catastrophic floods. #FIXME Descriptive Unqiue Link Text #FIXME ...

According to University of Washington assistant research professor of glaciers and ... causing the biggest melt in Washington state in a hundred years. On nearby Mount Rainier, which is normally ...

"One of the main hazards at Rainier, is it's less explosive, but it has a lot of glaciers on top of it that can melt and form these really large lahars that can move downstream into areas people ...

They have discovered it started retreating rapidly in the 1940s, according to a new study that provides an alarming insight into future melting. The Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is the ...

Global warming is melting more glaciers, revealing buried treasures within. As Newsweek reported, some of these "gems" have been discovered in Norway, specifically in the Lendbreen Glacier.

Global temperatures are rapidly rising, which are warming oceans and melting glaciers. Scientists have long explained that mountaintops are often affected by the warming climate faster than other ...

but the glacial melt doesn’t arrive until summer. To spare farmers a barren yield, engineer Sonam Wangchuk has invented a way to bring the glaciers to the people. In 2015, with $125,000 raised ...

"I think it's pretty clear that [the Mount Rainier white-tailed ptarmigan is] imperiled," Greenwald says, citing shrinking glaciers, decreasing snow cover and rising treelines. In his work ...

The man's body was found on the Schlatenkees glacier, one of the fastest-melting glaciers in Austria The body of a man who is believed to have died more than 20 years ago has been found on a ...