The extreme melting in 2018, one of the worst years on record for New Zealand’s glaciers, was made up to 10 times more likely by climate change, according to a 2020 study co-authored by Vargo ...

NIWA has been flying over New Zealand's mountain ranges to conduct their end-of-summer snowline survey, observing the state of glaciers and the elevation of the snowline since the 1970s.

New Zealand’s glaciers are retreating at a confronting pace, with scientists warning current trends will result in very little snow and ice covering the nation’s Southern Alps. The glaciers ...

A New Zealand glacier expert sounding the alarm on climate change feels like she is yelling into the void as yet another study shows our glaciers are rapidly shrinking. The grim news - published ...

New Zealand ranks third globally in the proportion of ice lost from glaciers. Almost 30% of ice volume has melted during the past 24 years and what remains is disappearing at an accelerating pace ...

This photo taken on March 19, 2025 shows a view of the Fox Glacier on the west coast of the South Island, New Zealand. The United Nations has designated 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers ...

The extreme melting in 2018, one of the worst years on record for New Zealand's glaciers, was made up to 10 times more likely by climate change, according to a 2020 study co-authored by Vargo and ...

Every year scientists in New Zealand fly over some of the country’s most iconic glaciers — ancient ice “rivers” that descend from the Southern Alps, a spine of mountains that extend along ...