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An icon representing degraded water quality.
Degraded water quality
The American flamingo is found in tropical wetlands. A migratory shallow water bird that gets its distinctive color from the pink crustaceans it feeds on. It also consumes algae.
Phoenicopterus ruber (American Flamingo) 1
The American flamingo is found in tropical wetlands. A migratory shallow water bird that gets its distinctive color from the pink crustaceans it feeds on. It also consumes algae.
Phoenicopterus ruber (American Flamingo) 2
The American flamingo is found in tropical wetlands. A migratory shallow water bird that gets its distinctive color from the pink crustaceans it feeds on. It also consumes algae.
Phoenicopterus ruber (American Flamingo) 3
Saltwater intrudes into freshwater, a problem often affiliated with excess coastal groundwater extraction.
Saltwater intrusion
Illustration of Esox lucius (Northern Pike)
Esox lucius (Northern Pike)
A conceptual diagram illustrates the factors that can stimulate the growth of harmful algal blooms in brackish rivers and how these blooms can negatively impact other species within the ecosystem.
Algal Bloom Causation and Impacts in Brackish…
Illustration of a Moray Eel
Moray Eel
Salt Marsh, found in coastal Oregon.
Oregon Wetlands
This Salt Marsh was found in Coastal oregon.
Oregon Wetlands
The Atlantic Rangia or wedge clam Rangia cuneata originates from the Gulf of Mexico. From there this bivalve colonized the Atlantic coast of North-America and Europe. The species mainly live in estuaries, brackish and freshwater. In ports, the Atlantic Rangia can become a pest as it establishes itself in industrial cooling pipes where it can obstruct optimal water flow.
Rangia cuneata (Atlantic Rangia)
local fishermen tie up and kids hang out at public dock
Barbuda fishermen boats
local fishermen tie up and kids hang out at public dock
Barbuda fishermen boats
This tank is located at the Oyster Hatchery, at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory in Cambridge, Maryland. The Horn Point oyter hatchery produces over five-hundred million oyster larvae for research, educational projects, and oyster restoration in the Chesapeake Bay and surrounding rivers.
Oyster Hatchery Tank
At the intersections of State Routes 322 and 33, three large stormwater culverts open to the headwaters of the North Fork of the Tred Avon River, Easton, MD.
Stormwater culverts delivering runoff from…
At the intersections of State Routes 322 and 33, three large stormwater culverts open to the headwaters of the North Fork of the Tred Avon River, Easton, MD.
Stormwater culverts delivering runoff from…

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