Canada glacier melt rerouted in rare case of ‘river piracy’
Apr 17, 2017 | 10:35 AM
Scientists have witnessed the first modern case of what they call “river piracy” and they blame global warming.
Most of the water gushing from a glacier in northwest Canada last year suddenly switched from one river to another.
That changed Yukon’s Slims River from a deep, raging river to something so shallow that it barely was above a scientist’s high top sneakers at midstream.
It also means the water from the glacier ends up in the Pacific Ocean instead of the Arctic’s Bering Sea.