Our daily voyage around the world

🇮🇱 Archaeologists discovered the world’s oldest known deep-sea shipwreck. The ~40-foot-long ship was detected last summer during a survey of natural gas fields at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea near Israel. Preliminary examinations indicate the merchant vessel sank ~3,300 years ago, with scientists finding hundreds of mostly-intact storage jars inside its hold. The discovery marks one of only three known shipwrecks from the Bronze Age (approx. 3300 BC-1200 BC).

🇪🇸🇵🇹 The Iberian lynx, one of the world's rarest cats, is no longer endangered. The Iberian lynx was common across Spain and Portugal before the 1960s, when habitat loss and poaching pushed the wild cat to near-extinction. Yesterday, the International Union for Conservation of Nature bumped the Iberian lynx from "endangered" to "vulnerable" after the species’ population grew to 2,000+ adults and juveniles in 2023.

🪖 A record number of NATO members are hitting the alliance's defense spending target. Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said 23 of NATO’s 32 member-states are expected to spend at least 2% of their GDP on national and joint defense this year – up from 10 such countries last year. If the projections hold, it would mark the first time that non-US members of NATO have met the 2% GDP spending goal, on average.