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Death by fertilizer: The Mar Menor lagoon

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Michael Altenhenne
August 17, 2022

Many of the vegetables eaten by Europeans are grown from the biggest saltwater lagoon, Mar Menor in Spain, and now it is being poisoned by industrial agriculture. Thousands of fish perished in summer.

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