Australia could be the cause of red ice on New Zealand's glaciers.
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.Dust clouds from Australia could be the cause, according to a University of Queensland professorPhotographs 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
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