https://apnews.com/a7952765649ad9d171b0ada314e34bcd > MADRID (AP) — Spain granted personhood status Wednesday to a large salt-water lagoon that has suffered massive die-offs of marine life, a new law that comes after a citizen-led push to provide better protection for the threatened ecosystem. > The initiative backed by more than 600,000 citizens will become law after Spain’s Senate voted in favor of the proposal to grant the Mar Menor lagoon on Spain’s southeastern coast the status of personhood, the first time such a measure has been taken in Spain.