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A hidden underground river carrying mercury has been discovered beneath Mar Menor, a well-known coastal lagoon in southeastern Spain. Researchers found that this flow of contaminated groundwater ...
Tucked away on Spain’s sun-drenched Costa Cálida, the Mar Menor is a saltwater lagoon unlike anywhere else in the country. Sitting in the Region of Murcia, southeast Spain, it’s separated from the ...
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 ...
Legislation codifies lagoon’s right ‘to exist as an ecosystem’ and to protection, conservation and restoration One of Europe’s largest and most endangered saltwater lagoons is facing a less fetid ...
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 ...