Tasman Lake, which is fed by melt water from the retreating Tasman Glacier, photographed in March this year. Trevor Chinn, CC BY-NC-SA A third of the permanent snow and ice of New Zealand’s Southern ...

The Southern Alps is a mountain range located in the South Island of New Zealand. The range stretches for approximately 500 kilometers along the western side of the island, and it is the highest ...

The Southern Alps in New Zealand are the latest icy region to be devastated by global warming. A study finds the mountains have lost up to 62 per cent of their glaciers since the end of the Little Ice ...

Glaciers in the Southern Alps of New Zealand have lost more ice mass since pre-industrial times than remains today, according to a new study. Research led by the University of Leeds, in collaboration ...

Changes in water levels beneath Earth’s surface caused by glacier snowmelt and rainfall could be responsible for triggering small but frequent earthquakes in New Zealand’s central Southern Alps, ...