<br /> <p>Scientists have blamed climate change as the reason Canada’s Kaskawulsh Glacier has shrunk dramatically and its meltwater stream is changing direction.</p><p>As a result of the diversion of flow, the original Slims River, where water from the glacier flowed into, disappeared over four days, The Guardian</a> quoted scientists.</p><p>The phenomenon, known as “river piracy,” is possibly the first to occur in modern times, geoscientist Dan Shugar told BBC</a>. River piracy is “the diversion of the headwaters of one stream into another one, ” according to a study published in Nature Geoscience on April 17</a>.</p><p>The study said the meltwater from Kaskawulsh Glacier in Yukon, one of Canada’s largest, used to flow northward toward the Slims River, then the Bering Sea. In spring 2106, a one-mile retreat of the glacier caused the meltwater to re-route, moving southward instead and flowing into the Kaskawulsh River, toward the Gulf of Alaska.</p><p>The change “abruptly and radically” altered the regional drainage pattern and could have a “profound effect on landscape evolution."</p><p>This footage of the glacier was filmed in August-September 2016.</p><br />
