The Local Spain https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Spain grants personhood status to threatened Mar Menor lagoon Spain has granted personhood status to Murcia's Mar Menor saltwater lagoon in order to give its threatened ecosystem better protection, the first time such a measure has been taken in Europe. https://www.thelocal.es/20220922/spain-grants-personhood-status-to-threatened-lagoon Thu, 22 Sep 2022 11:32:03 +0200 spain-grants-personhood-status-to-threatened-lagoon Mar Menor: Spain unveils plan for revival of crisis-hit lagoon Spain's environment ministry on Thursday unveiled a roadmap for regenerating the stricken Mar Menor, one of Europe's largest saltwater lagoons that is slowly dying from agricultural pollution. https://www.thelocal.es/20211104/mar-menor-spain-unveils-plan-for-revival-of-crisis-hit-lagoon Thu, 04 Nov 2021 18:42:04 +0100 mar-menor-spain-unveils-plan-for-revival-of-crisis-hit-lagoon Mar Menor dead fish fiasco: Ecologists launch EU complaint over Spain's 'continued failures' Ecologists said Wednesday they had submitted a formal complaint to the EU over Spanish authorities' "continued failure" to protect the Mar Menor, one of Europe's largest saltwater lagoons, against agricultural pollution. https://www.thelocal.es/20211006/mar-menor-dead-fish-fiasco-ecologists-launch-eu-complaint-over-spains-continued-failings Wed, 06 Oct 2021 19:53:14 +0200 mar-menor-dead-fish-fiasco-ecologists-launch-eu-complaint-over-spains-continued-failings Five stats to understand why Spain's Mar Menor is full of dead fish Thousands of dead fish have washed up on the coast of Spain’s Murcia region for the past week. What’s behind this environmental catastrophe that keeps getting worse year after year? https://www.thelocal.es/20210824/five-stats-to-understand-why-spains-mar-menor-is-full-of-dead-fish Tue, 24 Aug 2021 19:39:20 +0200 five-stats-to-understand-why-spains-mar-menor-is-full-of-dead-fish Mar Menor: How nutrients have poisoned Spain's largest saltwater lagoon "I am in love with this sea. I live for it and I live off it. If they took it away from me, I would die," says Pedro Martinez-Banos, gazing out across the sparkling waters of Spain's Mar Menor. https://www.thelocal.es/20191204/mar-menor-how-nutrients-have-poisoned-one-of-europes-largest-saltwater-lagoons Wed, 04 Dec 2019 10:28:01 +0100 mar-menor-how-nutrients-have-poisoned-one-of-europes-largest-saltwater-lagoons