Satellite reveals devastating glacier melt on Washington’s Mount Rainier following historic...

New satellite images of Mount Rainier in Washington State this week reveal the impact last month’s unprecedented heatwave had on the snowmelt.

A deadly heatwave, exacerbated by the climate crisis, smashed temperature record after temperature record in the US Northwest and Canada over recent weeks.

The extreme heatwave was caused by a “heat dome” of high pressure over the region and left hundreds of people dead.