How Do We Stop the Next Pandemic?
We learn about the global collaborations taking place and hear from the individuals working to avoid the next pandemic.
We learn about the global collaborations taking place and hear from the individuals working to avoid the next pandemic.
Scientists and experts talk about how human activity has caused disease in the past, and how we’re creating more opportunities every day for a spillover.
Leading scientists discuss the diseases they focus their time and effort on, and why they might cause the next pandemic.
While the world focuses on Covid-19, scientists are working hard to ensure it doesn't cause the next pandemic.
With a unique blend of drone cinematography and Cambodian poetry, this film by grantee Sean Gallagher showcases dramatic changes to Cambodia's landscapes. Deforestation and forest fires have decimated the country's primary forests and biodiversity.
Fires have decimated Cambodia's swamp forests in recent years, destroying critical fish habitats and forcing some fishermen to take up farming on Tonle Sap's increasingly dry shores.
Yale Environment 360 features Sean Gallagher's recent work documenting the destruction of Cambodia's forests, as part of his project, "Cambodia Burning."
"I want to do something. I want to walk forward, and that is my responsibility.” Does art have healing power? Is the revitalization of Cambodian classical dance a form of resistance?
Struggling American dairy farmers thought they could count on the world market. Then came the turbulence of tariffs and trade deals.
Poverty pushes Cambodian women to sell their hair, feeding demands for first-world vanity.
Cambodia’s tech sector is blooming and the country’s structural challenges might actually be strengths when adapting to the Fourth Industrial Revolution. What are the social risks and opportunities?
The Khmer Rouge Tribunal—"Asia's Nuremberg"—was created in 1997 to bring accountability for the Khmer Rouge era atrocities. 20 years and $320 million later, it has secured only three convictions.
This work explores complexities vis-à-vis the “mental health crisis” in Cambodia, drawing from transcultural psychiatry, medical anthropology, and communicated through the lens of solutions journalism.
In the heart of South East Asia, fires and chainsaws are clearing Cambodia’s last fragments of forest. Logging, agriculture, and rubber plantations are pushing forests to the edge of existence.
Women in some of the most impoverished areas of Cambodia sell their hair as a means of survival. But are they being exploited for vanity an unregulated hair industry?
Cambodia's post-genocide journey creates new opportunities and risks in national systems such as health, justice, and tech governance. It also reveals remarkable stories of human courage over time.
In Cambodia’s floating villages, tens of thousands of ethnic Vietnamese eke out precarious lives on the Tonle Sap. Born into statelessness, they are not permitted to vote, work, or even live on land.
Earlier this year, pressure from Cambodia's government forced the Cambodia Daily to close its operations. This profile tracks the Daily ’s founder as he makes a final attempt to save his newspaper.
Concrete. Glass. Silicon. Our civilization is built on the most important yet most overlooked commodity in the world: sand. And we are starting to run out.
Can an emergency plan to wipe out all malaria parasites in the Mekong work before multiple drug resistance spreads? No one knows.
When Cambodia closed its brothels a successful government-run HIV prevention program collapsed, and a new health crisis emerged.
A revolution is awakening in Cambodia—with protests led by a monk who is speaking out against the environmental destruction of his country.
For centuries, the flood pulse of this lake has fed a nation and nurtured incredible biodiversity. With a changing climate and scores of dams planned upstream on the Mekong, can it survive?
From the streets of Phnom Penh to the rice fields of Cambodia, Melisa Goss explores what lies behind the sex trade and what is being done to prevent it, stop it, and restore those caught in its trap.
Deforestation and fires are ravaging the forests of Cambodia. What does the future hold for the country? Photographer and filmmaker Sean Gallagher discusses his work on "Cambodia Burning."
TIME reporter Molly Ball looks into Cambodia's press crackdown and the future of democracy.
Leslie Roberts, deputy news editor at Science, traveled to Myanmar, Cambodia, and Thailand to report on emergency efforts to eliminate malaria in the Mekong.
Paul Nevin and Joanne Silberner explore ways that public health students can leverage news media to communicate health issues in an engaging, accessible way.
Saul Elbein tells us that 41 journalists were killed in the last decade while covering the environment, more than were killed while reporting on war in Afghanistan.
A revolution is awakening in Cambodia—with protests led by a monk who is speaking out against the environmental destruction of his country.
Reporter Chris Berdik introduces the lake Tonle Sap project from Cambodia.
Cambodia Burning is a finalist in the 2021 Social Impact Media Awards.
The documentary, which explores Cambodia’s rapid deforestation due to agriculture and logging, won in the short film category.
Grantee Sean Gallagher’s project looks into how logging, agriculture, and rubber plantations are pushing Cambodian forests to the edge of existence
Sean Gallagher received “Highly Commended” acknowledgement for his short film Cambodia Burning.
Photographer Sean Gallagher discusses his work and the impact of COVID with Alison Stieven-Taylor of Photojournalism Now.
Grantee Sean Gallagher's short film combines drone cinematography and Cambodian poetry. It has been shortlisted for the Earth Photo 2020 competition in the Changing Forests category.
What goes into ethically reporting a good story? Grantee Sean Gallagher, along with Hannah Berk and Fareed Mostoufi from the Pulitzer Center, discuss the importance of ethics with the World Press Photo’s Witness magazine.
"You get a lump in your throat, it was so devastating what you were seeing," photographer Sean Gallagher says to Chris King of the Documenting Climate Change podcast on environmental reporting in Cambodia.
This week: Why Pakistan and India are equipping their submarines with nuclear-tipped missiles, what life is like for ethnic minority Vietnamese living in Cambodia, and how armed groups have filled a power vacuum in the Central African Republic.
Grantee's hard-hitting reporting draws the notice of Poynter's chief media editor
Cambodian journalists facing violent retribution, the work of a Chinese activist and documentary filmmaker, and what deployment to Iraq meant for New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.
Filmmaker speaks about her journey into journalism and what it means to report on the environment and its human stories.
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 Guernica with current day issues presented from The Pulitzer Center.
Students analyze how an author structures and supports a story about disappearing sand reserves, then create visual campaigns that increase awareness about sand depletion.
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 "Guernica" with current day issues presented by the Pulitzer Center.
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 Guernica with current day issues presented by the Pulitzer Center.
In the following lesson, students will analyze several resources about the dangers of motorcycles, and by the end, they will write a summary about the dangers of motorcycles.
This lesson plan outlines a project that allows students the opportunity to connect with a contemporary crisis somewhere in the world.