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River redirected

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Glaciers and ice sheets are retreating in response to climate warming. An analysis of drainage patterns of a huge glacier in Yukon, Canada shows that glacier retreat has led to a drastic change in the destination of its meltwater in spring 2016.

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Figure 1: River piracy.

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  • 19 April 2017

    In the version of the News and Views 'River redirected' originally published (Nat. Geosci. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2946; 2017), the Slims and Alsek rivers were mistakenly referred to as the Sims and Asker rivers, respectively. This has been corrected in all versions of the News and Views 19 April 2017.

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