brackishness

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• The biologically-diverse, brackish ecosystems are idyllic for birdwatching, kayaking, and fishing—a secret discovery zone set just off from the beaches.

• In particular, as blue power plants mix fresh and salty water, they discharge something in between called brackish water.

• Its mix of fresh, brackish and salt water — together with mostly moderate winds and temperatures — makes it a magnet for sailors and fishermen.

• With their luxuriant canopies and pillar-like roots extending deep into brackish water, mangroves provide shelter for small fish and help clean coasts.

• All the ancient, fishy lamprey larvae were found in saltwater environments, Miyashita says, from brackish lakes to lagoons to offshore river deltas.

• A brackish breeze blew off the Black Sea, mixing with rotting garbage, human sweat, cheap cleaning products, and undefined fumes.

• I am bored to death, to extinction; my thoughts are the colour of that water which flows over yonder, brackish and heavy.

• This animal is fond of brackish water, therefore he most commonly inhabits those rivers which border on the sea.

• Captain Stirling examined them both: the former to its source, the latter beyond the point where the water ceased to be brackish.

• They were marooned on a desert island with practically nothing to eat and nothing but brackish swamp water to drink.

• Often the only water they had to drink was supplied by "brackish" ponds, whose surface was covered with greenish slime.