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Over billions of years, various materials gradually filled parts of the channel.

From Science Daily • May 15, 2026

Carden doesn’t want taxpayers on the hook for billions more in relief payments, so she proposes using the Defense Production Act as a solution.

From Salon • May 15, 2026

The supply of hydroelectricity has come under strain due to droughts, and as a result Canadian utilities have invested hundreds of billions to diversify their supply.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

Others have cited restructuring and cost-cutting to offset the billions of dollars they’re spending on AI infrastructure.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

If artificial selection can make such major changes in so short a period of time, what must natural selection, working over billions of years, be capable of?

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan