Missed out on June 2023's ocean news? Here's a glimpse into what went down in Davy Jones's Locker this month. News relates to marine animals & plants, the climate crisis and the ocean, fisheries and aquaculture, marine technology, oceanography, and people and the sea.
More than 90% of global aquatic food production faces substantial risk from environmental change
Strengthening and sustaining ocean observations through the G7
Open and accessible: the Digital Twin of the Ocean
Retirement of the JOIDES Resolution: end of one era, the start of another
Mapping for high seas protected areas
When discovery leads to protection for glass sponge reefs
When the side-scan sonar first picked up unexpected mound features in the Hecate Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound, which runs along the west coast of Canada, nobody expected them to be ancient yet living glass sponge reefs, especially since reef-building glass sponges were thought to have gone extinct during the Cretaceous period.