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More than 90% of the key nutrients degrading the Mar Menor, such as ammonium, phosphorus and silica, do not come from streams or continental groundwater, but rather through a mechanism that has so far ...
More than 450 endangered fan mussels have been recorded in the Mar Menor, signalling renewed reproduction and fresh hope for ...
From a crusade to save a dying lagoon by securing it the legal rights of a person, to building tree houses to lure back the bat population, environmental activists in Spain are doing what it takes to ...
It’s Thursday, October 20, and lawmakers in Spain have voted to grant legal personhood to a polluted saltwater lagoon. Mar Menor, a protected saltwater lagoon in the southeast of Spain, is now ...
On a warm spring morning, the Mar Menor lies flat and calm, its sprawling surface glistening under the sun. Sandy beaches are dotted with flocks of seagulls, herons, and cormorants, while volcanic ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over the last few weeks more than 20 tonnes of dead fish have washed up on the shores of Mar Menor, one of Europe's largest ...
Mar Menor used to be a Spanish treasure until pesticide runoff and sewage turned it into a green soup. Can local activists help restore it? When Eladio Sánchez Egea returned home one evening in April ...
Longtime Encinitas residents hope to turn excess sand from Del Mar's lagoon into a lifeline for the city's eroding northern ...