The oceans supply 50 percent of the air we breathe. They are a workplace to more than 50 million people. And yet, the journalism about this sprawling and vital place is a rarity.
Tired of migrants arriving from Africa, the E.U. has created a shadow immigration system that captures them before they reach its shores, and sends them to brutal Libyan detention centers run by militias.
In the small coastal country, an exploding industry has led to big economic promises, and a steep environmental price.
Off the coast of Italy, cruise ships are being repurposed as holding pens for migrants rescued from the Mediterranean.
For 110 days and across two seas and three oceans, crews stalked a fugitive fishing ship considered the world’s most notorious poacher.
Among the investigations covered in The Outlaw Ocean book is that of the Murder at Sea story, which reveals a slow-motion slaughter of at least four men caught on camera.
The seafloor is thought to hold trillions of dollar’s worth of metals and the Pacific-island nation of Nauru is making bold moves to get a jump on the global competition to plumb these depths.
While companies dump carbon into the air for free, the lungs of the globe suffer. The current climate crisis barely even considers the oceans.
The past six months have thrown an unusual amount of attention on an otherwise invisible workforce.
With more than 80 percent of the world’s fish stocks at or near collapse, some marine conservationists suggest that aquaculture might help counter the problem of overfishing.
The international fishing industry is ripe with corruption bred by corporate anonymity.
No other country comes close in the size of China’s fishing armada, but the dominance and reach of this fleet raises broader questions about how, why and at what cost China has put so many boats on the water.
Behind the tragedy of the recent deadly explosion in Beirut is the more pervasive travesty of the abandonment of ships, seafarers and cargo.
We partnered with two types of creators — an animator and a composer — to make an artistic rendering of our recent investigation.
Desperate North Korean fishermen are washing ashore as skeletons because of the world’s largest illegal fleet.
This page will now serve as the location where we will store reports on the Somali 7, original documents and open questions for which we hope to get answers from interested stakeholders.
The high seas remain an often-dystopian realm where the scant laws that do exist are frequently ignored. This has led to overfishing, illegal dumping, and other environmental abuses that are closely linked to human rights violations aboard thousands of vessels.
Every year, tens of thousands of migrants to Thailand are sent to brutal lives at sea.
From bullying and sexual assault to squalid living conditions and forced labour, working at sea can be a grim business—and one deep-sea fishing fleet is particularly notorious.
The absurd and remarkable story of Sealand, a “micronation” on an eerie metal platform, tells us plenty about libertarianism, national sovereignty, and the lawlessness of the ocean.
In a two-person submarine more than 700 feet under the polar ice, we witnessed some bizarre creatures.
As an oil company tries to drill in international Arctic waters, advocates race to block them.
Indonesia arrests Vietnam’s fishermen, and Vietnam responds by ramming a ship and taking an Indonesian officer captive.
Visiting countries where abortions are illegal, a Dutch doctor secrets women out to international waters to provide the procedure.
One of the most lawless regions on the planet, Somalia is a magnet for illegal fishing.
Ships that were supposed to have been scrapped are caught pillaging the east coast of Africa.
A team of Brazilian researchers hustled to stop a trio of energy companies from drilling at the mouth of the Amazon River.
Men who have fled servitude on fishing boats recount beatings and worse as nets are cast for the catch that will become pet food and livestock feed.
