aquatic

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It combined several approaches, including environmental monitoring, studies of how pollutants build up in organisms, analyses of genetic damage in aquatic life, and experiments using plants to remove contaminants.

From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2026

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

In the fall, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern was contained in a binder with a Lisa Frank-style aquatic wonderland on the cover.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 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

Repeated sprayings have now completely altered the stream environment, and the aquatic insects that are the food of salmon and trout have been killed.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson