'Slipping through our fingers': New Zealand scientists distraught at scale of glacier loss

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."I'm wondering if my favourite glacier is going to be there," says principal climate scientist Dr Andrew Lorrey. "We've had a really, really hot one this summer. It's hard to say. We'll just have to see how they've gone." Continue reading...