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Climate change causes glacial river in Yukon to change direction

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CBC (Canada)

Publication Date
2017-04-18

Climate change has caused the massive Kaskawulsh Glacier in the Yukon to retreat so much that its meltwater abruptly switched direction, in the first documented case of "river piracy" in modern times.

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-change-yukon-river-piracy-1.4070153