Scientists from the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO-CSIC) have detected in recent weeks "a large body of water with a rather anomalous whitish coloration" in the Mar Menor. Scientists have adapted the network of periodic samplings to determine its composition, monitor its evolution and investigate its possible origin.
The finding, as well as its study and monitoring, is possible thanks to the recently initiated BELICH project, whose first plenary meeting was held last April at the Oceanographic Center of Murcia.