Slims River

The Slims River (Ä’äy Chù) was a glacially fed river in the Canadian territory of Yukon.^[1] Until 2016,^[2] it originated in the Kaskawulsh Glacier, then ran approximately 15 mi (24 km) into the southern terminus of Kluane Lake.^[3]

Over the course of a few days in the spring of 2016 the flow of the river was changed.^[4] Where the meltwater of the Kaskawulsh Glacier had been draining in two directions, now it was all draining into the south-flowing Kaskawulsh River, and further on into the Gulf of Alaska, drastically reducing the size of the Slims.^[5] Researchers suggested the change in flow could be due to human-made climate change; this was the first time human-made climate change was implicated in the reorganization of a river.^[6][7]