This extreme melting has sent large amounts of water cascading down ... Descriptive Unqiue Link Text Some 200 billion gallons of water melted from Mount Rainier’s glaciers between 2003 and 2014 alone.

"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 ...

Melting glaciers have also hit much closer to home. A study of Mount Rainier National Park's glaciers in Washington reveals that they are in serious trouble. Volcanologists studying a crater ...

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 ...

The Thwaites Glacier is one of many bodies of ice that are melting, but this massive, Antarctic glacier is uniquely important when it comes to sea level rise. “We’re talking a ...

"The melting glacier is a message to each and every village in the Himalayan region that they will have to move to a better water source one day." Rural communities across the region of Ladakh are ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Scientists say the cryosphere—combinations of glaciers, ice, snow and permafrost—is melting faster than any recorded history, which is already contributing to altering the world’s water system. To ...

Switzerland's melting glaciers aren't an isolated event. In July, 11 people died after part of the Marmolada glacier collapsed in the Dolomites in an event Italy's prime minister, Mario Draghi ...

For many, the word “eruption” brings to mind 1980 when Mount Saint Helens demonstrated that the Washington Cascades are one of the most volcanically active parts of the country. Mount Saint ...