Pollutants have been leaking into Baffin Bay. Here's what a concerned community is doing.
Pollution is leaking into the bay waters from creeks bearing nitrogen and phosphorous from wastewater treatment plants, septic tanks and fertilizer runoff from the surrounding watersheds.
What is the recipe to restore Baffin Bay? Ask these scientists and residents.
Times examines solutions identified by residents and scientists to restore the polluted ecosystem of Baffin Bay.
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Failing wastewater treatment plants leads to Baffin Bay being overwhelmed by nitrogen, phosphorus
On this cold January day, scientists with the Harte Research Institute were out on Baffin Bay monitoring the levels of the pollutants flowing into this body of water. Baffin Bay is a body HRI ...
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Falklands' trawler catches fire and sinks at Vigo port; probable total losses
A Falkland Islands trawler “Baffin Bay” has sunk at the Galician port of Vigo where it was undergoing maintenance work. The Falklands' Department of Natural Resources reported that on the ...
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Falklands' Beauchene Fishing orders a new trawler to replace “Baffin Bay” sunk in Vigo
The Baffin Bay sunk in December 2020 in Vigo where it was undergoing maintenance work. The trawler had been fishing in Falklands waters since 1995. At the time it was reported that the trawler ...
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Pollutants have been leaking into Baffin Bay. Here's what a concerned community is doing.
RIVIERA — Just after sunrise on a weekday in mid-December, researchers launched a boat dubbed the “R/V Scott Murray” into the cold, salty waters of Baffin Bay. The land around the remote ...
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What is the recipe to restore Baffin Bay? Ask these scientists and residents.
But despite the rural and remote nature of Baffin Bay and its surrounding lands, the data indicates that the source of the water quality issues is on land. “A lot of people don’t recognize ...