Articles by Ian Urbina
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Stowaways and Crimes aboard a Scofflaw Ship (Part 1)
Ian Urbina – The New York Times,
3 Aug 2015
17 Jul 2015 — Men and Laws, Thrown Overboard – Few places on Earth are as free from legal oversight as the high seas. One ship has been among the most persistent offenders.
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Ian Urbina – The New York Times,
3 Aug 2015
20 Jul 2015 — A video shows at least four unarmed men being gunned down in the water. Despite dozens of witnesses, the killings went unreported and remain a mystery.
→ read full article‘Sea Slaves’: The Human Misery That Feeds Pets and Livestock (Part 3)
Ian Urbina – The New York Times,
3 Aug 2015
27 Jul 2015 – Forced Labor for Cheap Fish – 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.
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Ian Urbina – The New York Times,
3 Aug 2015
28 Jul 2015 – The Thunder, a fugitive fishing ship considered the world’s most notorious poacher wanted for illegal fishing, was chased for 110 days and more than 10,000 nautical miles across two seas and three oceans, until it sank in April 2015. Its dramatic story.
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Ian Urbina – The New York Times,
8 Aug 2011
“There have been over a million wells hydraulically fractured in the history of the industry, and there is not one, not one, reported case of a freshwater aquifer having ever been contaminated from hydraulic fracturing. Not one,” Rex W. Tillerson, the chief executive of ExxonMobil, said last year at a Congressional hearing on drilling. But there is in fact a documented case, and the E.P.A. report that discussed it suggests there may be more. Researchers, however, were unable to investigate many suspected cases because their details were sealed from the public when energy companies settled lawsuits with landowners.
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