borders

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It provides strong evidence that fish relying on connected rivers across national borders are declining quickly due to dam construction, habitat fragmentation, pollution, overfishing, and climate-related ecosystem changes.

From Science Daily

"Rivers don't recognize borders -- and neither do the fish that depend on them. The crisis unfolding beneath our waterways is far more severe than most people realize, and we are running out of time. Rivers need to be managed as connected systems, with coordination across borders, and investments in basin-wide solutions now before these migrations are lost forever."

From Science Daily

“Smoglandia” — another mashing of words — is big, bigger than the borders of any city or county here.

From Los Angeles Times

Many of the terminals were brought into Iran through the "southern borders and through the waterways," Ahmadian said.

From Barron's

“For more than 45 years, Congress has guaranteed people arriving at our borders the right to seek asylum, consistent with our international treaty obligations,” said Kelsi Corkran, Supreme Court director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, who argued the case.

From Los Angeles Times