By To mark the UN’s ocean decade, contestants were asked to write imaginatively on ‘10 years in the ocean’
Last November the Marine Biological Association (MBA) – one of the world’s longest-established bodies dedicated to research into our oceans and its ecosystems – led the first online Young Marine Biologist summit. Attracting more than 350 young people from 35 countries, the event, which celebrated the start of the United Nations’ Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–30), was also used to launch the Ocean Decade writing challenge.
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