Salt water is denser than fresh water, so ocean circulation depends on a stable vertical stratification of salinity. Melting glaciers dump enormous volumes of fresh water on top of that layered system, disrupting the up-down and top-to-bottom circulations that hold the whole thing together. Once stability breaks, marine species lose their habitable salinity zones, some go extinct, and weather patterns shift because the ocean drives climate.
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