Research institute NIWA predicts many of country’s most important glaciers will be gone within the decade
The plane’s engine groans, and its small frame rises. Through a thin membrane of cloud, the spine of the southern alps rises like a dark sawblade.
“It’s really dramatic,” says prof Andrew Mackintosh, the lead scientist on the exhibition, turning back over his headrest to yell over the roar of the engine. “I wouldn’t have imagined to have seen changes like that in my lifetime – it’s quite profound.”Photograph: Niwa / Rebekah Parsons-King Brewster Glacier has shrunk over two decades so that it no longer has the ‘characteristics of a happy, living glacier any more’.“The scale of retreat is confronting, even to a glaciologist.”
Carrington glacier, New Zealand. Dr Andrew Lorrey says rapid action is needed to save the country’s remaining glaciers.The flight attempts to document the snowlines on more than 50 glaciers, some of which have been monitored like this for the last 46 years. But over time, some of the index glaciers have been substituted out as they disappeared, swapped for cousins in the higher reaches.
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