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Hidden under the ice sheet are channels the size of the Grand Canyon that funnel ice and water off of Greenland and into the ocean.
Or does it find a way out to reach the global ocean?
One possible way for the water to reach the bedrock and from there the ocean is a crevasse, or a crack in the ice.
Can they take it to the bedrock and the ocean?
From there, it has a clear path to reach the ocean.
Now that we know the aquifer water is getting to the base of the ice sheet, the next question is: Is it making the ice itself flow faster into the ocean?
Quite the opposite– the ducks have since washed up all over the world, and researchers have used their paths to chart a better understanding of ocean currents.
The topography of the ocean floor and the shoreline modifies those motions, causing currents to speed up, slow down, or change direction.
Ocean currents fall into two main categories: surface currents and deep ocean currents.
Though they have different causes, surface and deep ocean currents influence each other in an intricate dance that keeps the entire ocean moving.
Meanwhile, in the open ocean, wind is the major force behind surface currents.
As wind blows over the ocean, it drags the top layers of water along with it.
The mirror image happens in the southern hemisphere, so that the major streams of wind form loop-like patterns around the ocean basins.
The winds push the ocean beneath them into the same rotating gyres.
Unlike surface currents, deep ocean currents are driven primarily by changes in the density of seawater.
As water moves from the depths of the ocean to the surface, it carries nutrients that nourish the microorganisms which form the base of many ocean food chains.
And Brian then went on to even greater risk to get this never-before-made photograph of a trawl net scraping the ocean bottom.
They have been rarely photographed, partly because they are considered one of the most dangerous predators in the ocean.
And the problem, I think, is that we take the ocean for granted.
Most of the planet is ocean water.
Part of the problem, I think, is we stand at the beach, or we see images like this of the ocean, and you look out at this great big blue expanse, and it's shimmering and it's moving and there's waves and there's surf and there's tides, but you have no idea for what lies in there.
The biodiversity and the biodensity in the ocean is higher, in places, than it is in the rainforests.
Most of the biomass in the ocean is made out of creatures like this.
Bill Lange: We tend to forget about the fact that the ocean is miles deep on average, and that we're real familiar with the animals that are in the first 200 or 300 feet, but we're not familiar with what exists from there all the way down to the bottom.
And you can sit in a room like this, with a joystick and a headset, and drive a robot like that around the bottom of the ocean in real time.
You could never get a permit to dump this in the ocean, and it's coming out all from it.
You can just imagine, this expanse is an ocean of sand, 105 degrees, one water bottle.
Or you throw it into the ocean and some fish will benefit from it.
You could even use the lime to add it directly to seawater to counteract ocean acidification, one of the other issues that is caused by CO2 in the atmosphere.
While counteracting ocean acidification is a good thing, we don't fully understand what the environmental consequences are, and so we need to assess whether this treatment is actually better than the disease that it is seeking to cure.
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