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

That's because fish have to swim within two metres of the pipe inlet heads, and the estuary is 22km wide at that point.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026

There to the left of us was the silver streak of the river, widening to the estuary at Kerrith six miles away.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier