When a River Goes Missing, It's Kind of a Big Deal...

How does a river suddenly disappear? It gets stolen! How do you steal a river? With climate change!
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River piracy and drainage basin reorganization led by climate-driven glacier retreat
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"River piracy-the diversion of the headwaters of one stream into another one-can dramatically change the routing of water and sediment, with a profound effect on landscape evolution. Stream piracy has been investigated in glacial environments, but so far it has mainly been studied over Quaternary or longer timescales. Here we document how retreat of Kaskawulsh Glacier-one of Canada's largest glaciers-abruptly and radically altered the regional drainage pattern in spring 2016."
Retreating Yukon glacier caused a river to disappear
www.washington.edu/news/2017/0...
"The massive Kaskawulsh Glacier in northern Canada has retreated about a mile up its valley over the past century. Last spring, its retreat triggered a geologic event at relatively breakneck speed. The toe of ice that was sending meltwater toward the Slims River and then north to the Bering Sea retreated so far that the water changed course, joining the Kaskawulsh River and flowing south toward the Gulf of Alaska."
Canada's Glaciers Are Melting 900 Percent Faster Since 2005
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"About a quarter of all Arctic land ice outside of Greenland is found in the glaciers and ice caps of the Queen Elizabeth Islands in Canada. The ice covers more than 40,000 square miles, and a new study reports that it began to melt dramatically faster in 2005 than it had in previous years. Before 2005 the glaciers were relatively stable, seeing surface melt of three gigatons every year, as ice flowed to the ocean. But between 2005 and 2015, that figure jumped by 900 percent, averaging 30 gigatons of ice loss per year."
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This episode of Seeker was hosted by Trace Dominguez.
Written By: Lauren Ellis

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EVERYBODY! Trace, Amy & Julian will be live on Facebook today (at 1:45p PDT). Comment below with your questions, and tune in at Facebook.com/SeekerMedia in a few hours to see them answered!

[@crazygoat5595]

Seeker Can you read this?

[@Trident_Euclid]

Seeker Can we call anti-transhumans transphobic?

[@reallywrongnamedoesntgoher7875]

Stop tryin to be human ya pre-robots. Ya'll rip'd that.

[@Xdonker]

Seeker why all artificial intelligence claim that they are human when they are not?

[@stevenchristy6156]

AI's programmed to try and pass the Turing test will claim to be human since that is part of the test to see if they can fool the person into believing they are.

[@Kevin-um1nq]

You heard him kids, if someriver asks you to get in the van, don't get in

[@blue_cameron]

Unless they have candy

[@03Epicman]

or wifi

[@BigT.Larrity]

Pedophile jungle rivers are serious business

[@AbudBakri]

When a river goes missing it's in denial...or the Nile.

[@Gimbergp]

Haha good one 😂

[@rektifygaming5673]

O.M.G...

[@Peng_Pong]

*Drums and cymbals*

[@PrateekVarshney_PV]

Saddest stupidest denial yet... The Nile was is were we started, denial is where we'll perish

[@austinhernandez2716]

Ba dum tss

[@ASlickNamedPimpback]

"I'm in for murder. How about you?" "I stole a river." "You Monster! My god..."

[@jonathanklausner9736]

i'm a alpinist and i have been skiing on glaciers all my life, sad seeing a friend going away.

[@chasemcdingleberg4164]

Gibb kw what a loser thomst are

[@exmythos7318]

this does happen naturally,but humans are probably speeding things up ...

[@iwanabana]

we were supposed to be in an ice age...

[@gaekaas]

Yes they sure do, but the big question is: With how many seconds do they speed it up every year? 20 sec?, 30 sec?, maybe 60 sec?

[@Luredreier]

Yes these kind of things do happen naturally, over longer periods of time. The difference now is that the natural climate cycles in essence has taken a U-turn from going towards an small ice age (or at least a cold period) towards climate that hasn't been seen since the dinosaurs walked this planet extremely fast. Nature isn't good at responding to such huge changes in climate happening quickly...

[@greylepoard]

gam mal you clearly don't understand that human made activity rapidly increases the rate that natural things happen. there has never been this much carbon this fast before, and it started in the late industrial revolution - rather curious 🤔

[@BitcoinMotorist]

Humans are natural

[@bennubyrd]

Trace you're really good with delivering information to people and explaining it like it's person to person ur so great dude good job keep em coming

[@robertlivingston1634]

There's a massive drie river bed behind my home in northern Michigan, it was obviously a massive river that got redirected. I always suspected a retreating glacier for the cause, I'm so happy that big chunk of ice has moved thousands of miles north, it's still pretty damn cold here.

[@Volkyno]

In my country the winter is shorter and wormer with every year. 15 years ago the snowing started in November and ended 3-4 months later. At Christmas we had snow and temperatures below zero with record of -20*C and -35*C. In the present the snow was not present until now when we had 2 days of snow, but now is melting and we had really worm winter, with temperatures of +7*C, up to +19*C and rarely below zero, with not more then -2*C. This really affect the agriculture!

[@Firefenex1996]

I'm a geography student and thanks to this video, I realized I've learned stuff in class. and I just spent three minutes waiting to hear something new... thanks college 🖒

[@aurathedraak7909]

when McDonald's disappear. it's a big deal.

[@jobvandelaar7977]

Not for me !

[@ashrafmohammad7840]

obese people would literally vanish

[@aurathedraak7909]

lol

[@Evil12monks]

In the city I live in the McDonald's got demolished a few days ago. Now I'm waiting on all the fat people to disappear.

[@aurathedraak7909]

its a holy area for fat people lol

[@erdvilla]

Piece of evidence: Mosquitoes being nasty all-year-around; before they would die off or fly away from Sep to Feb, but now with warmer winters they just keep screwing around. And living in a Dengue-fever area, that makes things even worse. We had to install meshes in all our doorways.

[@iridiumdx6682]

"which is all kinda... meh" omg i laughed so hard the "meh"

[@candiceblack86]

Got to love the way they call a "meh" moment for what it is =)

[@saser11]

as a kid we had snow every winter.. i havent seen a proper snowday in years..

[@VictorCardoza]

Idk why but this just made me think of all the fish that want to migrate back up the river but now it's gone lmao

[@TarriPup]

Reminds me of something I read where the Waikato river in New Zealand had changed course because of a super volcanic eruption...

[@WobblesandBean]

I just keep replaying 1:29 over and over and over

[@LatinaCreamQueen]

I'VE MISSED YOU. And I've finally found the new Seeker channel! NEVER LEAVE ME AGAIN :'(

[@4zap7]

people act like just cause theirs science behind global warming means us humans have no part in speeding up the process. i suggest you look into what the scientist who dedicate decades of research into before making an assumption about global warming being false

[@swissxpiplup]

North then south? It's at the 90° angle; the last time I traveled north and turned right by 90°, I didn't end up walking back on myself. xD

[@danieljacobus7944]

I wrote in June, 2016 about the river through paradise drying up in "Bee Valley" available on Kindle Amazon.

[@ABCantonese]

What if the Slims is a safety valve river that just took all the water that could not be taken in the Kaskawulsh? Between the two rivers, when the Slims lost its water, the Kaskawulsh didn't seem to have grown by much. Or just that the Slims' source had dried up whether than having gone anywhere. This wasn't the river that died up in 4 days, was it? Speaking of steam capture, where was the Danube?

[@AifDaimon]

That's crazy!! An entire river redirected within days.. YIKES

[@JoseRamirez-yh2ll]

I learned something today =D

[@TheThegy]

haha 1:29 you cracked me up

[@skizonormal2160]

it must be frustrating for scientists to know and see this happening right in front of us, and at the same time have ONE world leader absolutely refuge the facts

[@N.A.M.LazyCloud]

Somebody please tell me what music this is, in the background of this video.

[@buckstarchaser2376]

So, what you're saying is that the slims river bed is ready for gold panning?

[@surendd8702]

+Seeker bro, where can I buy the t-shirts you wear?

[@cboyles84]

What an amazing image😀

[@ImranAli-zf3vb]

Excellent.. Information

[@AnteBrkic]

What satellite didn't capture is an old lady with a shovel...

[@atenakitabi3769]

Last time I was this early, there was still *ice age* going on.

[@captainjoshua125]

Thank god Seeker still exists after that NowThis bullshit.

[@agent_soshi]

My favourite piece of evidence is one of our city council's footpath, they have to move it every few months because the coastline is moving inland and the path falls apart and into the sea

[@roudyh.]

Just hope you change that music background and more dynamic like Dnews

[@BrusselsInBelgium]

This is honestly creepy

[@24saikiran]

I want to know how do hailstroms fall.

[@mrj3222]

Nice job

[@KarisMajik]

My name is River. This truly is a big deal! Also, I'm Canadian too...

[@miyo7376]

Only true fans will remember when satellites go missing vid

[@oscarlopez-nm7oy]

at 1:50 you say, "a whole river was going north now it's going south". I'm pretty sure you meant to say east😂😂

[@oscarlopez-nm7oy]

at 1:48 actually

[@kershaad]

That shirt is awesome, haha

[@DerpingtonJr]

Stream capture sounds more like a security risk for users on Twitch

[@Elliandr]

This is just the beginning. If you think it's bad that a river changes course, consider where the spring rivers flow from: snowy mountains. Water is locked up then melts at a steady pace supplying all the rivers we depend on. Long before the glaciers are gone, this function of mountains will slow and cease leading to dried up rivers. However, annual rainfall is also increasing, which means rivers that suddenly swing from dry to flooded and back to dry. in other words, without this gradual process of water being locked up in ice and then released gradually, we will get most of our water when we don't want it and not enough water when we do want it. the only real way for communities to properly prepare for such an inevitability is to plan for Water reclamation technology and or rainwater collection and treatment at a large enough scale to effectively offset the loss of rivers.

[@cup_check_official]

am i the only one who read the title as "When a liver goes missing..." ?

[@gokureturns67gokureturns67]

Tell Me This yep

[@arvindjijiantony4882]

most probably yes

[@olive4naito]

Tell Me This River Privacy

[@Yamyatos]

Every japanese person feels with you :P

[@juanrodriguez4605]

That would make a great video

[@nameless4618]

The background music... The tone Trace is talking with... This video is so.... Cold.......

[@frozeneternity93]

You wouldn't steal a river. Piracy, it's a crime

[@Viatoreptil]

Do a video on the Aral Sea. If a vanishing river sounds exiting, how about a lake that was once the 4th largest in the world!

[@judyholco7563]

lovely story

[@KittyBoom360]

The NASA photos actually show the ice coverage increased tho during that time. The glaciers were not retreating, they grew. Glaciers are in constant motion, always moving down land and breaking apart and melting, even when temps are constant. So videos of breaking glaciers is evidence of nothing. However, seeing the ice coverage actually increase suggest lower temps.

[@GloriousZote]

now thats what i call nature going south

[@TinchoX]

Changed in 4 days? Damn..

[@paulson8937]

My favorite piece of evidence is the fact animal agriculture is the second leading source of the rapid rise of greenhouse gasses in our atmosphere. " 'Murica" eats lots of meat.

[@fabi9188]

slowly vanishing of north pole glaciers ...

[@MakeMeThinkAgain]

Will the European glaciers continue to retreat if the Gulf Stream re-directs?

[@theeyeshaveit309]

we can simply redirect part of the river back to the north put in a river divide

[@stefanpuschel3958]

As a geoscientist I did not freak out at all, it´s interesting to see something from theory actually happening but that's all.

[@teaser6089]

we are still in an ice age because for a period of time to be called "Ice Age" it has to have ice at it's poles well we do have ice at our poles now so we are in an ice age!

[@VeggieBond]

Anyone know about the Saraswati river in India? It disappeared like a thousand years ago.

[@lubhanicharan4214]

*Did anyone noticed his t-shirt An awesome hi5 of 👩‍🚀 & 🐙!!*

[@aidanenglish5475]

Me in the beginning: "well at least it wasn't caused by climate change" Me at 2:05 : " weelllllll shit"

[@KeithLburns]

When things go south

[@jarynn8156]

I mean.. The idea of a river relocating isn't unheard of. The US has been fighting an epic war for a century now to keep the Mississippi from rerouting.

[@3dcrazy332]

Mars is getting warmer as well as a few other planets..... even Pluto.

[@TheJaseku]

The music i a bit too loud -

[@randygilmour]

You forgot to mention that river

[@kayzeaza]

Water is powerful and do whatever it wants

[@jameskruczek9635]

the change in the tilt of the planet as it changes its oreintation to the north star would change the angle to the sun and that would be more likely cause change.

[@dava0104]

How come you guys are following 'Homies of Mars' on yt, does one of you guys play Realm of the mad god? :O

[@jackdalton2538]

Are they going to send a riveroligist?

[@adramelic1123]

"Farthest corners of our planet" Isn't it round

[@mrpatrickcastrog]

PLEASE BRING BACK SEEKER DAILY (we hate NowThis)

[@wobbegong9958]

What if we just found some way to use the heat energy, Cold is just a lack of heat

[@PrateekVarshney_PV]

Darwin had a hard time getting people to think on a much longer time-scale and now, with all evidence, he is well-respected. Man-made climate change has evidence right in front of us, but of course, short-sighted us will appreciate it only a century or so later, if humans, and life on Earth in general isn't extinct by then

[@vanman9607]

So we're supposed to think on the long scale when it comes to evolution, but if you apply that to climate change you're automatically a denier. Funny how that works. If you look at the long time-scale, the earth has cycles where it warmed and cooled, without human interaction. If you look specifically at the last 200 years because that supports your arguments, that's not looking at the long time-scale at all compared to the billions of years the earth has been around.

[@PrateekVarshney_PV]

vanman9607 checkout veritasium's video on how the surplus from humans is affecting the carbon cycle. Fine to think of Earth's unintervened cycle, and frankly, I'd love to see how you manage in +2 degrees C, sadly I'll get to see it during my lifetime.

[@PrateekVarshney_PV]

Zutaca I like how the NIN came into existence back in 15000 BCE in the cave murals ;-). Sadly people don't get it. They probably need to understand differential calculus to understand the rate of change and stuff. Anyhow the rate of change of the entire universe is supposed to increase, but sigh... our intervention and denial on top of it.

[@amerodeh9382]

That is why I find it of paramount importance that people understand Hegel's Dialectik. Check out both School of Life videos on Hegel for a nice and easily digestible intro.

[@PrateekVarshney_PV]

Amer Odeh nice, thanks!

[@blomakranz]

Iceland is being affected maybe not on the surface it's being affected our biggest resource is our country beauty and the most beautiful places of them all are the glaciers and the caves they have made although it isn't as serious as it could be it's still happening and it's getting worse every year

[@merlinwhench1395]

Seriously? This story was months ago. Why are they only talking about it now?

[@codywohlers2059]

@1:55 "caused by.... you already know." ERROR - deductive reasoning missing

[@xapemanx]

Deal with it Nature

[@tristissimvshominvm8999]

When a KZbin channel disappears, it's usually NowThis taking over it.

[@audreybailie8863]

whole villages being moved due to land becoming too marshy when all of time before it never had problems.

[@teabiscuit2618]

is the background music meant to make me sleep?

[@codywarwick3479]

1:25 Sounds kinda meh (Sorry Im obsessed with the way he says "Meh" for some reason) anyone else? lol

[@sapphirewingthefurrycritic985]

There's a reservoir that is about half way through a road trip my dad and I take every year in California. One of the things we do is to see how low it is and sometimes it gets really low. Like some of the small islands close to the shore aren't even islands anymore. It's kind of scary to see it sometimes.

[@DomyTheMad420]

1:55 "it now goes south" No.. it's going East. More specifically it appears to be headed South-south-south-west.

[@Unity_Space_Cyber]

The heat

[@madmatz01]

Looked like it went east

[@Foxman25000]

My favorite piece of evidence 2017's hurricane season

[@FlameForgedSoul]

Ocean Acidification; a world covered in flat seltzer, "yay".

[@rys4469]

Aren't we are tropical species? Also if the world gets warmer won't it increase condensation. Which will increase rainfall which in turn would increase fresh water? Wouldn't it increase farming in northern areas?

[@kalzafar]

I live in the Maldives and at high tide it is a foot higher than it used to be than 10 years ago... there is your evidence right there

[@dcbhgeneralcontracting7086]

shit. The Yukon is my home. I need to check on my river. i mean whats next ...night is day? oh wait, that"s already a thing as well. Dam you Midnight sun.

[@Larzsolice]

My favourite evidence that climate change is really happening is that Mars is also experiencing climate change.

[@BlackDaddy]

or its a bottling company sucking up all the water.

[@Gimbergp]

An invisible straw coming from the sky sucks the river dry.

[@terryfuldsgaming7995]

My favorite example of climate change is not here yet. It will be when Mar a lago is underwater in less than ten years.

[@TylerWangsgard]

So it was man causing climate change that caused Lake Bonneville to drain? This isn't the first time a river has found a different path of least resistance. It won't be the last.

[@chasemcdingleberg4164]

That moment when the weather in germany is warmer then in turkey

[@danlewis1871]

Ice melts - get over it!