estuary
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Much of the uncaptured Mexican waste flows into the Tijuana River, which crosses a U.S. estuary before reaching the Pacific.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
Algae-smothered seagrass meadows in the Thames estuary along the Essex coast and the Firth of Forth on the east coast of Scotland were among those worst affected.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
The environment 132 million years ago would have looked very different from today's coastline, estuary, and developed landscape.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2026
The tidal Scheldt river estuary is the main maritime access route to Antwerp port, along with several narrower canals primarily used for inland navigation.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
What most spectators had not realized was that the bridge ran across the estuary at a slight angle.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
They placed groups of these tiles in three estuaries in the Sydney region, Brisbane Water, the Hawkesbury River and Port Hacking, near existing oyster reefs where larvae are present.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 6, 2026
The Florida Everglades are a unique environmental region comprising marshes, prairies, forests, mangroves and estuaries.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2025
And farmed shellfish, which can help restore oceans, estuaries, or our coastlines.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2024
Longfin smelt live in bays and estuaries along the Pacific coast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2024
The inshore waters —the bays, the sounds, the river estuaries, the tidal marshes — form an ecological unit of the utmost importance.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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