Like the ancestors of modern terrestrial creatures, Qingmendous dwelled in brackish waters of lagoons, bays and deltas — within spitting distance of land. (washingtonpost.com)
The vaquita, a porpoise living in brackish waters where the Colorado River empties into the Gulf of California, is critically endangered, biologists say, depleted by fishing nets and the disruptions in the great river's flow in the 20th century from dam construction. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
This show's single work is a 21 - foot - long table sculpture of a tiny tanker - truck crossing a narrow causeway in what is undoubtedly a man - made lake of brackish water. (nytimes.com)