Ian Urbina

Ian Urbina is the director of The Outlaw Ocean Project, a non-profit journalism organization based in Washington DC that focuses on environmental and human rights concerns at sea globally.

How Europe's Border Agency Works With Libya to Turn Back Migrants

Published Dec 8, 2021 6:48 PM by Ian Urbina

Posted in: Government

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

Published Dec 1, 2021 5:21 PM by Ian Urbina

Posted in: Government

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

Published Sep 27, 2021 3:43 AM by Ian Urbina

Posted in: Government

[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?

Published Sep 6, 2021 1:49 AM by Ian Urbina

Posted in: Environment

[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?

Published Aug 29, 2021 10:00 PM by Ian Urbina

Posted in: Government

[This article appeared first in The New Yorker and is reproduced here courtesy of The Outlaw Ocean Project.] Gunjur, a town of...