Two forces threaten the sustainability of sharks—fishermen in developing countries like Mexico and consumers in China. Both seem unstoppable but both will have to change if sharks are to survive.
Photographer Matt Black documents life in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero.
Last year, 43 students went missing from Iguala, Mexico. Award winning photojournalist Matt Black documents the lives of their families.
Louie Palu's photographs expose the bloody drug-related crisis along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Writer Erik Vance discusses the Seri people and their struggle to maintain control over their fishing grounds.
The Upper Gulf of the Sea of Cortez, like the ancient mariner, suffers from an albatross around its neck. But this albatross swims unseen in its murky depths.
Sometimes it's easy to get bogged down by bad news from the oceans. Erik Vance shows that there's still hope: In Cabo Pulmo, Mexico, the ocean is rebounding.
Erik Vance and Dominic Bracco II discuss—and illustrate!—some of the important, and exotic, species in the Sea of Cortez.
Fifty years of intense fishing on Mexico's Sea of Cortez has left behind a highly depleted resource. As environmentalists struggle to find solutions, photographs capture the fishermen's daily quest.
For decades, environmentalists painted fishermen as the enemy of the seas. Today, conservation hinges on scientists and locals working together — and seeing fisherman as an intrinsic part of the sea.
Science writer Erik Vance discusses the dismal future of the global fishery on WNYC Radio.
A generation of change in the Sea of Cortez.
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