Cool, rainy weather continues to sweep across the Seattle area this weekend, with overnight snowfall in Paradise near Mount ...

Several of Mount Rainier’s glaciers are already gone, experts say, and others aren’t far behind. The News Tribune asked what ...

The river has changed drastically since his youth, he told The News Tribune. The water has grown increasingly warm and the ...

The Sunrise sign at Mount Rainier National Park seen covered in snow on Sept. 27, 2023. (National Park Service) TOPICS: Although residents of western Washington bid farewell to summer, it seems ...

You don’t have to step foot on Mount Rainier to see that it’s special.. The 14,410-foot-tall, snow-capped mountain inspires even from miles away, but nothing compares to experiencing it up close.

A researcher with GPS equipment found Mount Rainier is now about 10 feet shorter than previously measured. ... “We’ll still have mountains; we’ll still have snow in the winter,” he said.

The snowcapped peak of Mount Rainier, which towers 4.3 kilometers (2.7 miles) above sea level in Washington state, has not produced a significant volcanic eruption in the past 1,000 years. Yet ...

The very top of the mountain is unlikely to lose its snow and ice. If it did, Mount Rainier, an active volcano, would look very different. “Like Darth Vader’s head,” Mr. Kennard said.

The glaciers of Mount Rainier are in a situation where they’re not getting recharged with the snow that they need to be. And we’re basically losing glacial ice over time.

“It's still kind of a perennial snow patch,” said Mount Rainier National Park geologist Scott Beason. “If you go up there, you'll still run into some snow, but you're not going to see crevasses.