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Sci & Tech● LowAug 26 · Aug 26, 2026, 11:55 AM

In 1933, the United States completed a 549-kilometer waterway through Illinois to transport cargo between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River; decades later, it became a route for invasive carp

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An engineering feat transformed freight transportation in the central United States, but caused an invasive species to begin spreading uncontrollably.

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