black market

The booming succulent market is creating wide-scale theft of cacti from national parks. Can microchip tracking solve the problem?

Social media and e-commerce sites are the new battlegrounds for the illegal wildlife trade.

Tracking the organ trade, anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes visited African and South American dialysis units, organ banks, police morgues, and hospitals. She interviewed surgeons, patient's rights activists, pathologists, nephrologists, and nurses. So why aren't more people listening to her?

Gall bladders, Tibetan antelope wool, musk pods, ivory tusks, pounds and pounds of frog fat—these are just some of the items being smuggled into the U.S. that are, among other things, dangerous to our health.

As the Argentinean government tries to limit the number of American dollars in circulation, a black market has taken the place of the official exchange.