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February 19, 2015 | PBS NewsHour
Indonesia: Unearthing Toxic Conditions for Impoverished Gold Miners
Award-winning photographer Larry C. Price looks at children working in the gold mines of Southeast Asia.
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February 06, 2015 | Pulitzer Center
Field Notes Podcast: Into the Gold Mines
To document child labor in the small-scale gold mining industry Larry Price carried his cameras 300 feet into the earth.
November 06, 2014 | Boston Review
Indonesia: Islam's Abortion Debate
In Indonesia, while public opinion and the law take a consistently rigid stance against abortion, Islam offers a much more pragmatic approach.
September 23, 2014 | Pulitzer Center
Indonesia: The Real Cost of Gold
In Indonesia, illegal dredging operations damage the environment and poison the food chain. For one mountain village, it may be too late.
March 03, 2014 | Pulitzer Center
Indonesia: Child Labor in Small-Scale Gold Mining
Small-scale gold mining is the largest source of mercury emissions produced by humans. In Indonesia child miners are exposed to mercury which can cause tremors, memory loss, and brain damage.
February 28, 2014 | Pulitzer Center
Philippines and Indonesia: Children Mine for Gold at Great Cost to Health
Child miners are exposed to highly toxic mercury which can be absorbed through the skin, ingested in food and water, or inhaled from vapors.
February 12, 2014 | Foreign Policy
Southeast Asia: 'A Certain Medical Procedure'
In Indonesia and the Philippines, abortions take place underground. The social costs of these women's secrets can be crushing.
December 30, 2013 | The Philadelphia Inquirer
Philippines and Indonesia: Children Mine for Gold at Great Risk to Their Health
Mercury use in gold mining is widespread in the Philippines and Indonesia, where child labor is common and small-scale miners operate freely.
December 23, 2013 | The Seattle Times
Indonesia: Food for Millions at Risk
A remote Indonesian village highlights the threats facing millions of people who depend on marine creatures susceptible to souring seas and ocean warming.
November 03, 2013 | The Seattle Times
Can Sea Life Adapt?
For a glimpse of how nature might — or might not — adapt to ocean acidification, scientists turn to the prickly “hedgehog of the sea.”
August 12, 2013 | The Washington Post
A Deadly Cycle-Drama On the Streets of Jakarta
Cheap Chinese-made motorcycles far outnumber cars on Jakarta's roads—and they have become a major safety hazard.
August 12, 2013 | Pulitzer Center
Roads Kill: Quick Facts from Around the World
The world's roads are still a place of carnage, with hair-raising instances of risky practices, unenforced laws and shoddy data. This quick survey of country facts also shows that progress is real.