New Zealand's disappearing glaciers

This guide explains the decline of New Zealand's glaciers, drawing on NIWA surveys that have run since 1977. About two thirds of the ice measured in the late 1970s remains, the glaciers are thinning far faster than twenty years ago, and they are likely to vanish by the end of the century. It also covers Australian desert dust darkening the snow, and what glacier loss could mean for hydropower, flooding, and avalanche risk.