Slims River

{{Short description|Former river in Yukon, Canada}}

File:Slims River.jpg

File:Kluane National Park Slims River.jpg

The Slims River (Ä’äy Chù) was a glacially fed river in the Canadian territory of Yukon.{{cite web|url=http://cgip.wikifoundry.com/page/Kaskawulsh+Glacier|title=Kaskawulsh Glacier - Canadian Glacier Inventory Project|publisher=cgip.wikifoundry.com|accessdate=2016-01-17}} Until 2016,{{Cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/slims-river-dries-yukon-kluane-glacier-1.3639472|title=Retreating Yukon glacier makes river disappear|newspaper=CBC News|access-date=2017-02-20|language=en}} it originated in the Kaskawulsh Glacier, then ran approximately 15 mi (24 km) into the southern terminus of Kluane Lake.{{cite web|url=https://bemaps.wordpress.com/2015/08/02/slims-river-kluane-national-park/|title=Slims River, Kluane National Park – Map Portfolio – Brodie Elder|publisher=bemaps.wordpress.com|accessdate=2016-01-17}}

Over the course of a few days in the spring of 2016 the flow of the river was changed.{{Cite journal|last=Shugar|first=Daniel H.|last2=Clague|first2=John J.|last3=Best|first3=James L.|last4=Schoof|first4=Christian|last5=Willis|first5=Michael J.|last6=Copland|first6=Luke|last7=Roe|first7=Gerard H.|date=May 2017|title=River piracy and drainage basin reorganization led by climate-driven glacier retreat|journal=Nature Geoscience|language=en|volume=10|issue=5|pages=370–375|doi=10.1038/ngeo2932|issn=1752-0894}} 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.[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/17/receding-glacier-causes-immense-canadian-river-to-vanish-in-four-days-climate-change "Receding glacier causes immense Canadian river to vanish in four days"], Hannah Devlin, The Guardian, 17 April 2017. Researchers suggested the change in flow could be due to manmade climate change; this was the first time manmade climate change was implicated in the reorganization of a river.[https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/science/ct-climate-change-reroutes-yukon-river-20170417-story.html#scso=uid_WPT5eQACsIQKY9dH_gHD-Q_1:0 For the first time on record, human-caused climate change has rerouted an entire river]{{Cite web |last=Loukili |first=Youssef |last2=Pomeroy |first2=John |date=30 November 2018 |title=The Changing Hydrology of Lhù’ààn Mǟn - Kluane Lake - under Past and Future Climates and Glacial Retreat |url=http://www.merrittnet.org/Papers/Loukili_Pomeroy_2018.pdf |website=University of Saskatchewan Centre for Hydrology}}