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Estuaries -- wetland ecosystems where freshwater rivers meet saline ocean waters -- are gateways connecting land and sea.

From Science Daily • Apr. 9, 2024

In December, Levin introduced the Resilient Coasts and Estuaries Act, which would allocate federal funds to programs that protect coastal habitats.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2024

Estuaries — a refuge for growing juvenile salmon — have been diked and drained to create farmland.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 13, 2023

Estuaries are biomes that occur where a source of fresh water, such as a river, meets the ocean.

From Textbooks • Sep. 6, 2018

Estuaries are scooped out, great rocks are gradually reduced to rubble, innumerable tons of matter are continually being set in movement.

From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by Thomson, J. Arthur