Ian Urbina

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Ian Urbina is an award-winning investigative journalist and founding director of The Outlaw Ocean Project.

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The Peruvian government launches the 2025 anchoveta season with a 3-million-ton quota, the second-highest in the last 13 years. Image by Ministerio de la Produccion - Produce via Flickr. Public domain.

A chemical kept fishmeal from catching fire. Then scientists raised cancer concerns

Ian Urbina 9 Oct 2026

A worker throws feed into a pool at a shrimp hatchery at Nagulapally village, Uppada, Kakinada district, Andhra Pradesh, India, Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024. Activists say India, the largest supplier of U.S. shrimp, America’s favorite seafood, is polluting the environment through aquaculture. Image by AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.

For Indian communities, fishmeal factories bring pollution, danger and protests

Ian Urbina 9 Oct 2026

Fishers at work in artisanal fishing pirogues with seine nets off the Senegalese coast, Kafountine, Casamance. Image © Clément Tardif for Greenpeace.

Fishmeal factories take Senegal’s fish from the dinner table

Ian Urbina 9 Oct 2026

News and Inspiration from Nature's Frontline.

Andean Cock-of-the-rock (Rupicola peruvianus). Photo by Rhett A. Butler

The Jalisco mud turtle, endemic to the Jalisco and Colima states in Mexico, is a freshwater turtle found in rivers and wetlands.

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