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FILE - A man collects dead fish that have appeared by the shore of the Isle of Ciervo off La Manga, part of the Mar Menor lagoon in Murcia, Spain, Aug. 19, 2021. Spain granted personhood status ...

Researchers from the University of Murcia have demonstrated the vulnerability of the Mar Menor coastal lagoon to climate change. As a result of an up to 5°C increase in water temperatures over the ...

Five tons of fish and crustaceans have washed ashore over the past 10 days at Spain’s Mar Menor, once a lagoon paradise that is slowly dying from agricultural pollution. The sparkling saltwaters have ...

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 ...

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MADRIDMADRID — Spain granted personhood status Wednesday to what environmentalists call Europe’s largest salt-water lagoon, which has suffered massive die-offs of marine life as it degrades due to ...

A man collects dead fish that have appeared by the shore of the Isle of Ciervo off La Manga, part of the Mar Menor lagoon in Murcia, Spain, Aug. 19, 2021. (Edu Botella/Europa Press via AP, File) ...