MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK — Apparently triggered by a hot summer, a half-acre section of the South Tahoma Glacier broke off near Tahoma Creek in Mount Rainier National Park and caused a flood of ...

A close view of the new cavern at the terminus of the South Tahoma Glacier on Mount Rainier, which is the initiation point for the Aug. 5, 2019, outburst flood and debris flow. (Scott Beason ...

The resulting damage closed a road and trail in the national park. The event on the South Tahoma Glacier occurred Monday between 6:48 and 7:58 p.m. without warning, according to a news release ...

TACOMA — Water has gushed from a glacier on Washington’s Mount Rainier, damaging a road and trail as it flowed down. The News Tribune reports the water burst on the South Tahoma Glacier ...

The glacial outbursts and debris flows originated at an elevation of 6,800 feet on the South Tahoma Glacier. They are the first such outbursts in the park in nearly a decade, Beason said.

Warned by geologists that the South Tahoma Glacier is aimed like a fire hose at the main entrance to Mount Rainier National Park, the National Park Service responded this summer with a traditional ...

Debris sits where the Tahoma Glacier once flowed at Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state, Oct. 20, 2018. America’s glaciers are losing ice as the world warms. As they shrink and ...

Mount Rainier provides no shortage of proof. A glacial outburst at about 6:50 p.m. Monday at the mountain’s South Tahoma Glacier sent debris and boulders as big as pickup trucks flowing down the ...

TACOMA — Water has gushed from a glacier on Washington’s Mount Rainier, damaging a road and trail as it flowed down. The News Tribune reports the water burst on the South Tahoma Glacier ...