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NZ’s glaciers have already lost nearly a third of their ice – as more vanishes, landscapes and lives change
Snow and ice loss warms the land surface and air, setting off a feedback loop of further ice loss. This destabilises the landscape, with potentially hazardous impacts.
New analysis charts historical loss of New Zealand’s glaciers
A new analysis has put the worsening decline of New Zealand’s postcard glaciers into bleak historical context: suggesting they’ve lost 80% of their ice since 1895. Half of that loss had come over the ...
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NZ's glaciers have already lost nearly a third of their ice—as more vanishes, landscapes and lives change
Recent surveys have shown that summer melt far exceeds winter inputs ... eventually the bank account runs dry. The retreat of Fox Glacier destabilises adjacent hillslopes. Credit: Brian Anderson.