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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.
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Antarctic creature makes rare appearance on New Zealand beach. See the ‘king’
On a beach in southern New Zealand, a creature thousands of miles from home made a rare stop. Irene Wright McClatchy News The large mass of land and ice on the southern tip of the planet is ruled ...
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Skiers pull off crazy, dizzyingly steep new line on New Zealand's tallest mountain
Two skiers have pulled off a breathtakingly audacious first descent on an insanely steep line on New Zealand’s tallest mountain ... winds that turned snow into ice forced the pair to retreat ...
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First Global Comparison of Glacier Mass Change: They’re All Melting, and Fast
By systematically assessing data gathered by different methods, researchers refined estimates of global glacier melt and its ...
NZ's glaciers have already lost nearly a third of their ice—as more vanishes, landscapes and lives change
Almost 300 glaciers have now vanished completely from New Zealand's mountains. As warming temperatures melt glaciers, the ice ...