30 beluga whales at a closed zoo in Canada are threatened with euthanasia. Since the authorities stopped the export of the animals, the facility is appealing for emergency financial aid so that the whales can continue to live.
Verbal and physical abuse - and sometimes as much as a decade without being allowed to go ashore. In violation of UN sanctions, North Koreans endure forced labour and gross violations on board Chinese ships, according to a report.
Did the China Investigation Have Impact? The short answer is, in large measure, yes. But in some ways, no.
The size and behavior of the Chinese fishing fleet raises concerns. Seafood is the world’s last major source of wild protein and the largest globally traded food commodity by value. Western political analysts say that having just one country controlling this precious resource creates a precarious power imbalance.
Daniel: The tragic tale of an Indonesian deckhand and his brutal voyage on a Chinese squid ship.
China uses thousands of workers from the Hermit Kingdom, in violation of U.N. sanctions and U.S. law. Many at the plants recounted rampant sexual abuse.
China forces minorities from Xinjiang to work in industries around the country. As it turns out, this includes processing much of the seafood sent to America and Europe.
An exploration of the motivations and methods behind China's growth and control overfishing across most of the high seas.
China accuses the US of raising tensions The United States is "creating tensions" in the South China Sea by allowing a US warship to travel through shipping lanes claimed by Beijing, China claims.
The Philippines accuses China of putting up a "floating barrier" that is stopping fishermen in a disputed area of the South China Sea, CNN reports.
The emergence of the first jaws with teeth was one of the most important events in the history of life on Earth. Now scientists in China have found fossils of jawed fish with the astonishing age of almost 440 million years. They are our oldest known ancestors with teeth
