How Global Warming Diverted a River

Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - 07:32 in Earth & Climate

In 2016, the global warming-induced retreat of one of Canada's largest glaciers altered the flow of its meltwater so much that it killed off one river and shunted its waters over to another, an abrupt geological act known as river piracy.

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