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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Glaciers Don’t Lie: Climate Change And Our Visit To A Shrinking New Zealand Glacier
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:05:25
	Publish Date:		2020-02-20 05:59:00
	Description:		Note: WXPR’s Ben Meyer celebrated his honeymoon in New Zealand this month with his wife, Erika. This week’s edition of The Stream is inspired by their visit to one of New Zealand’s mountain glaciers. Every day the weather cooperates, a helicopter delivers hikers onto Fox Glacier in the mountains of New Zealand’s South Island. Guides lead groups wearing boots and crampons across the ice sheet, which sparkles white on the surface and bright blue in its many crevasses and ice arches. A hike on the glacier was a top destination for my wife Erika and me during our New Zealand honeymoon this month. But this glacier is melting and disappearing, as seen in this time-lapse , like thousands of glaciers across the globe, a direct result of human-caused climate change. A few years ago, helicopters like the one Erika and I took to Fox Glacier became the only way to access it. “We used to walk on. All the trips used to walk on. But what’s happened [is] the glacier is receding back into two rockfall
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