Australia's drought may be causing New Zealand's glaciers to turn red
The drought gripping eastern Australia is having consequences as far as 2,000 kilometres away, with the ice on New Zealand glaciers turning red and pink.
Photographs of New Zealand's Mount Aspiring National Park, on the South Island, show discoloured ice across large swaths of the mountains.
Travel blogger Liz Carlson took the images on November 28 while on a helicopter tour of the glacier. On her blog, Young Adventuress, she suggested the odd colour came from the 80 bushfires burning in Australia at the time.
Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-06/glaciers-in-new-zealand-turn-red-from-australian-dust/11773458
Photographs of New Zealand's Mount Aspiring National Park, on the South Island, show discoloured ice across large swaths of the mountains.
Travel blogger Liz Carlson took the images on November 28 while on a helicopter tour of the glacier. On her blog, Young Adventuress, she suggested the odd colour came from the 80 bushfires burning in Australia at the time.
Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-06/glaciers-in-new-zealand-turn-red-from-australian-dust/11773458
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