aquatic

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The erudite and engaging historian Lincoln Paine unfolds our relationship to the aquatic planet for the past 5,000 years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Concentrations of the chemicals were sometimes up to 45 times above safe levels, with the situation shown to be killing aquatic insects.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

A few moments like an accidental death or the wild introduction of an aquatic character are so wonderfully out of left field they make one’s head spin.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

Some scientists thought these fish-eating creatures may have been fully aquatic, gliding through deep waters to snare prey.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

From the cloudy summit they saw the immense aquatic expanse of the great swamp as it spread out toward the other side of the world.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez