Mar Menor is suffering a natural disaster due to the excess nitrogen in the water that is causing algae blooms and excessive growth of phytoplankton, turning this unique ecosystem into a dead, “green soup”.

Currently, our society is being challenged to address the Nitrogen crisis. Instead of creating new and expensive technology to palliate the damage to the environment, we should look at nature first and find the answers there.

National nitrogen emissions reduction measures do not diminish actual amounts of nitrogen entering the ocean, they just move the nitrogen emissions to countries that have less strict regulations.

Philanthropy is not a model that can stand toe-to-toe against the pace of our marine degredation. We need something else

The sea snot blanketing the coast of Turkey in the summer is naturally scary. It provokes disgust and fear. The citizens in the nearby area are relentlessly reminded of the problem; it is on their doorstep.

Wilding is an ecological conservation and regeneration concept gathering steam in the UK and Europe. It is a relatively new principle that moves away from high intensity species and habitat specific management, towards a hands off approach – allowing nature to heal itself.

Carbon is just the first global anthropogenic chemical imbalance that needs to be addressed. Our addiction to Nitrogen based fertiliser will be the next.

As a species, we are faced by an omnipresent availability bias. Human efforts around sustainability are focused on that which is seen and measured.

Human technologies work well for their singular desired purpose, but miss broad and naturally regenerating benefits of nature