Climate Change Is Melting Mount Rainier's Glaciers.
Climate change is melting the ice on Mount Rainier. The environmental effects will be widespread, a Park Service study warned.
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Climate change is melting the ice on Mount Rainier. The environmental effects will be widespread, a Park Service study warned.
Once, there were 29. Now at least one is gone, maybe three. Those that remain are almost half the size they used to be. Mount Rainier is losing its glaciers. That is all the more striking as it is the most glacier-covered mountain in the contiguous United States. The changes reflect a stark global reality: Mountain glaciers are vanishing as the burning of fossil fuels heats up Earth’s atmosphere. According to the World Glacier Monitoring Service, total glacier area has shrunk steadily in the las