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The Outlaw Ocean Project

Taking over from the inside — China’s growing reach into local waters

World

Taking over from the inside — China’s growing reach into local waters

By Ian Urbina, Pete McKenzie and Milko Schvartzman

North Korean forced labour programme condemns workers to beatings, sexual abuse in Chinese seafood factories

World

North Korean forced labour programme condemns workers to beatings, sexual abuse in Chinese seafood factories

By Ian Urbina

‘Slow-motion murder’: Deckhands on Chinese squid boats are dying of beriberi far out at sea

World

‘Slow-motion murder’: Deckhands on Chinese squid boats are dying of beriberi far out at sea

By Ian Urbina

Video Dispatches from The Outlaw Ocean (Episode 9)

World

Video Dispatches from The Outlaw Ocean (Episode 9)

By Ian Urbina

Video Dispatches from The Outlaw Ocean (Episode 7)

World

Video Dispatches from The Outlaw Ocean (Episode 7)

By Ian Urbina

Episode 7: Epilogue — How the high seas are both a dystopian netherworld and a place of impossible wonder

Our Burning Planet

Episode 7: Epilogue — How the high seas are both a dystopian netherworld and a place of impossible wonder

By Ian Urbina