rivers
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This bycatch includes salmon, which then die in the ocean instead of returning to spawn in their native rivers.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
"Our rivers are running dry of fish, but the trawl industry isn't regulated to stop killing them," says Candopoulos.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
If organic compounds were also broadly available, some of those lakes and rivers may have offered important chemical ingredients for life.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026
Its rivers powered textile mills that generated fortunes until they began to suffer from foreign competition in the 1970s and 1980s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
It was understood that water evaporates from the oceans and becomes rain, and that the rain feeds rivers which flow to the ocean.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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