
The diversion of headwaters from one stream into another
Ahoy! There be liquid booty on the move in the high mountains.
Since May 2016, a channel carved through one of northwestern Canada’s largest glaciers has allowed one river to pillage water from another, new observations reveal. This phenomenon, almost certainly the result of climate change, is the first modern record…The post ‘River piracy’ on a high glacier lets one waterway rob another appeared first on FeedBox.