Ian Urbina

How Europe's Border Agency Works With Libya to Turn Back Migrants
Around 5 p.m. on Feb. 4, roughly 70 miles north of Libya, a white reconnaissance plane with a camera on its underside circled a ra...
The Real Consequences of Europe's Deal With the Libyan Coast Guard
In May of 2021, I traveled to Libya to explore the troubling story of the country’s prisons for migrants captured trying to...
China's Illicit Squid Fishery Has Deadly Impact on North Korea
[This article originally appeared on NBC News and appears here courtesy of The Outlaw Ocean Project] The battered wooden &...
Part II: Fish Farming is Feeding the World, But at What Cost?
[Part I of this article may be found here. This piece appeared first in The New Yorker and is reproduced here courtesy of The Outl...
Part I: Fish Farming is Feeding the World, But at What Cost?
[This article appeared first in The New Yorker and is reproduced here courtesy of The Outlaw Ocean Project.] Gunjur, a town of...