‘River piracy’ on a high glacier lets one waterway rob another
Channel formed by melting ice diverts water flow, leaving loser high and dry
HIGH-WATER ROBBERY The melting of Kaskawulsh Glacier in northwestern Canada diverted water flow from one river into another, plummeting water levels in the waterway that once fed Kluane Lake (shown).
Jim Best/University of Illinois
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