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March 10, 2020 | Here & There
China, Brazil, and the Pursuit for Pork
From Mato Grosso to Pará, how rural Brazil provides one of the food commodities China needs most.
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March 10, 2020 | WWNO
Water Ways: A Culture Of Experimentation Leads To Creative Solutions
Climate change is bringing new threats and the Dutch are trying some unusual approaches in response.
March 10, 2020 | KUNR
As Private Prisons Push To Keep Costs Down, Workers Can Pay The Price
Private prisons are looking to push costs down, despite complaints of underpaid and overworked staff.
March 10, 2020 | KUNC
Can a Private ICE Detention Center Save a Rural Town's Economy?
Evanston, Wyoming is struggling to thrive in a boom and bust economy. Amid this, a private prison company's proposal to build a detention center in the town sparked debate among locals.
March 09, 2020 | NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune | The Advocate
The Dutch Are Giving Rising Rivers More Room. Should We Follow Suit?
The Dutch have long been the proud tamers of rivers, building vast networks of levees that kept the rising waters separated from farms and cities.
March 07, 2020 | Reveal
The Refuge Revealed
Oil rigs may soon be coming to the nation’s largest wildlife refuge. We find out what that could mean to the people who live there.
March 07, 2020 | BBC
John Beck on Climate Change in the Sullivan Islands
The Solomon Islands, once a South Pacific paradise of blue lagoons, and emerald forests are severely affected by climate change.
March 06, 2020 | UN Dispatch
How China’s Demand for Soybeans is Fueling the Destruction of the Amazon Rainforest
A story with immense explanatory power touching on geopolitics, the rise of China and the power of Chinese consumers—and of course, climate change.
March 05, 2020 | Here and Now
Tropical Forests Are Absorbing Less Carbon
The journal Nature reports that a key bulwark against runaway climate change is breaking down.
March 01, 2020 | Savannah Morning News
Septic Tanks Threaten Water Quality on Georgia’s Coast as Sea Levels Rise
As sea levels rise, septic tanks pose a destructive threat to water quality throughout the coast of Georgia.
February 25, 2020 | Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting
Under Pressure, More Kentucky Agencies Report Asset Forfeiture Seizures
Amid growing scrutiny of Kentucky law enforcement’s use of asset forfeiture, more than twice as many agencies disclosed last year how much cash and property they seized than they did two years prior.
February 21, 2020 | PRI's The World
Chinese Development in the Amazon
Last year, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reached the highest rate in more than a decade. One of the biggest drivers of deforestation in the region is the growing of soybeans for livestock feed. The World's host Marco Werman speaks to reporter and Pulitzer Center Grantee Melissa Chan about her reporting in Brazil on Chinese interests in the Amazon.