estuary

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For most metals, TRI values were below 1, indicating no significant non-carcinogenic risk for adults consuming these foods from the Doce River estuary.

From Science Daily • Feb. 17, 2026

“That’s a clapper rail,” Mike said, an endangered bird that makes its home in the estuary.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026

She also helped Mike and others take the estuary restoration fight to Sacramento, to Washington, D.C., and to Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026

Now sitting on the inter-tidal mudflats of the estuary, they have created a new land mass on the edge of the existing saltmarsh at Northey Island.

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2026

The fiddler crab is not the only creature of tidal marsh and estuary to be threatened by pesticides; others of more obvious importance to man are endangered.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson