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.

One of the world’s oldest national parks, Mount Rainier became part of the federal system in 1899, shortly after its last eruption. Park status was the culmination of a long campaign by John ...

This may help us use nature as an early warning system for eruptions of the 250 or so volcanoes, including Mt. Rainier in Washington, Mt. Redoubt and Mt Veniaminof. in Alaska, and Eyjafjallajokull ...

Glaciers looked at in the study include those associated with some of the most iconic and infamous volcanoes in the world, such as Mt Rainier and ... system for potential eruptions at sites ...

Millions of people around the world live near one of the roughly 1,500 active volcanoes on Earth—from Italy’s Campi Flegrei to Indonesia’s Merapi to the United States’ Mount Rainier.