Mar Menor news from The Olive Press, reporting in English on Europe's largest saltwater lagoon on Spain's Costa Calida – an internationally protected wetland ringed by resort towns including La Manga, Los Alcazares and San Javier. Coverage spans the lagoon's long-running pollution crisis and fight for legal protection, crime and the courts, water shortages and severe weather, and the tourism trade the Mar Menor sustains. For wider regional context see Murcia, or follow Costa Blanca and Environment.