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January 21, 2021 | Al Jazeera
Living in the Shadow of Rebellion: India’s Gond Tribe
Members of Central India’s Gond tribe find themselves caught in a decades-long conflict between armed Maoists and the police.
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Asia
January 19, 2021 | News18
Over 3 Decades After Bhopal Gas Tragedy, Families Struggle To Pick up Threads of Life
More than 36 years ago, in the early hours of December 3, 1984, around 35-40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate (MIC) leaked from a factory in Bhopal.
January 19, 2021 | Science Magazine
COVID-19 Cases Are Soaring in Indonesia. Can a New Health Minister Turn Things Around?
Some question if Budi Gunadi Sadikin, who has a degree in nuclear physics, can help the country recover.
January 17, 2021 | IDN Times
12 Portraits of Biodiversity in Pekalongan Tropical Rainforest (bahasa Indonesia)
Flora and fauna are well preserved even outside the conservation area.
January 15, 2021 | BuzzFeed
US Solar Companies Rely on Materials From Xinjiang, Where Forced Labor Is Rampant
Solar power relies heavily on Xinjiang — a region in China with forced labor for Muslim minorities.
January 15, 2021 | Military.com
Pentagon Hits Target of 2,500 Troops in Afghanistan Despite New Law Restricting Drawdown
President-elect Joe Biden will arrive at the White House next week with the smallest military presence in Afghanistan in nearly two decades.
January 14, 2021 | Yale Environment 360
As World’s Deltas Sink, Rising Seas Are Far from Only Culprit
Although climate change is often blamed for coastal inundation in places like the Bay of Bengal, other factors such as dam building and urbanization play an important role.
January 14, 2021 | BBC Future
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.
January 14, 2021 | BBC Future
What Will Cause 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.
January 14, 2021 | BBC Future
The Next Pandemic: What Will It Be?
Leading scientists discuss the diseases they focus their time and effort on, and why they might cause the next pandemic.
January 13, 2021 | Science Magazine
After Aborted Attempt, Sensitive WHO Mission To Study Pandemic Origins Is on Its Way To China
After a discontinued first attempt, WHO heads back to China to continue its investigative mission to study the COVID-19 pandemic's origins.
January 12, 2021 | BBC Future
The Other Virus That Worries Asia
While the world focuses on Covid-19, scientists are working hard to ensure it doesn't cause the next pandemic.
The Gond Tribe of Central India
This project is a feature on the Gond tribe from Bastar, an insurgency-hit region in Central India.
Women on the Move
Out of fear, hope, or desperation, millions of women around the world migrate each year in search of new lives.
Mutualism in Indonesia's Forests
The forest, its inhabitants, and local communities are interconnected. Promoting their mutualism can help forest and biodiversity conservation efforts.
Memory and Trauma
What stays behind after Hong Kong's year-long democracy movement?
Encroachment Practices in Educational Forest Areas and the Resulting Environmental Impacts
Encroachment in the Educational Forest of Tanjungpura University is not only causing forest cover loss and environmental damage, but also state financial loss.
Coronavirus Child Brides
COVID-19 is leading to a rise in child marriages by families desperate for economic help in developing countries.
Bhopal Gas Survivors in the Face of COVID-19
On 3rd December 1984, Bhopal was devastated by a leak of poison gas. With 60 percent of survivors already suffering from respiratory illness, how are adult survivors being affected by COVID-19?
Women and Reproductive Rights in Kashmir's Tribal Community
The women of a nomadic tribal Muslim group in Kashmir often lack access to reproductive health and rights.
The Threat of Hydropower To the Kayan River Ecosystem (bahasa Indonesia)
The construction of a hydropower mega-project in the Kayan River, North Kalimantan, has the potential to disrupt the ecosystem in the areas.
Barred – A Prisons Project
This five-part series will capture the impact and experiences of incarceration in India — the extreme living conditions, lack of medical care and legal support, and violence within the system.
Survival in the High Seas
Filipino sailors understand the mystic lure of the ocean. They also know its dangers firsthand. These are their stories of survival.
A Distant Peace: Voices From Rakhine State, Myanmar
This project explores intensifying armed conflict between the Arakan Army and Myanmar military through the voices of affected civilians, within the context of COVID-19 and national elections.
October 06, 2020 | Meet the Journalist
Behind the Story: Cambodia Burning
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."
July 29, 2020 | Meet the Journalist
Behind the Story: Life After Jihad
What happens when a woman looking for companionship or love online instead finds jihad? Pulitzer Center grantee and 2014 Miel Fellow Ana P. Santos travels to Indonesia to find out.
June 22, 2020 | Meet the Journalist
Behind the Story: China's Changing Yellow River
China’s Yellow River continues to struggle for its survival after decades of unchecked development. Today, that fight has escalated to its headwaters on the Tibetan Plateau. Here, at 4,500 meters, patches of degraded land have connected to form vast deserts.
June 18, 2020 | Meet the Journalist
Behind the Story: Climate Supertrees
Eliza Barclay explains how the Vox reporting team focuses on key superpowers of three tree species in three rainforests to convey their unique ecological roles and the urgency of protecting the them.
June 02, 2020 | Meet the Journalist
Behind the Story: Malaysia's Last Hunter-Gatherers
In June 2019, a mysterious illness spread like wildfire claiming 16 lives within two weeks in a community of 186 Batek, Malaysia’s last hunter-gatherers. In the end, only 20 were left unaffected.
May 15, 2020 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Rachel Nuwer
Tigers, elephants, and other large, charismatic animals are much beloved in the west but, as Pulitzer Center grantee Rachel Nuwer explains, they pose a dire threat to the livelihoods and lives of people who must live with them on a daily basis.
November 25, 2019 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Sim Chi Yin
Photographer Sim Chi Yin speaks on the thinking and impulse behind making the latest chapter of her ongoing project "Shifting Sands," a visual investigation of the global depletion of construction sand.
November 22, 2019 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Leslie Tai
A Chinese surrogacy agent’s business in southern California has become a one-stop shop for wealthy Chinese couples seeking to hire American surrogates to have their babies.
August 27, 2019 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalists: Sara Hylton and Alice Su
From sheltering the vulnerable to registering women to vote, women across Pakistan are pushing up again patriarchal customs and fighting for their rights despite the immense dangers they face.
May 08, 2019 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Xyza Cruz Bacani
Photojournalist Xyza Cruz Bacani discusses climate refugees in Indonesia who become vulnerable to exploitation by human traffickers.
May 07, 2019 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalists: Adam Willis and Eloisa Lopez
Meet Adam Willis and Eloisa Lopez, reporting on the Catholic church in the Philippines and Duterte's war on drugs.
April 29, 2019 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Emiko Jozuka
Emiko Jozuka investigates the social, economic, and political consequences of Japan's rapidly-shrinking population.
January 25, 2021 | General news, Project news
Behind the News: India's 'Compensatory' Forests
The working of India’s $8 billion compensatory afforestation scheme is cause for serious concern on ecological and social justice grounds.
January 22, 2021 | Education news
A View of America from the Silk Road
Journalist Paul Salopek is on a journey to re-trace ancient patterns of human migration.
January 15, 2021 | Project news, Awards
Pulitzer Center-Supported Film Named Finalist in Social Impact Media Awards
Cambodia Burning is a finalist in the 2021 Social Impact Media Awards.
December 18, 2020 | Project news, Awards
Asian American Journalists Honor 2018 Pulitzer Center Fellow
Kiran Misra has won a Journalism Excellence Award for her story on the effects of New Delhi urban development on local communities.
December 10, 2020 | Project news, Awards
Pulitzer Center-Supported 'Cambodia Burning' Wins Earth Photo Award
The documentary, which explores Cambodia’s rapid deforestation due to agriculture and logging, won in the short film category.
December 07, 2020 | Project news, Awards
‘Cambodia Burning’ Shortlisted for British Photography Award
Grantee Sean Gallagher’s project looks into how logging, agriculture, and rubber plantations are pushing Cambodian forests to the edge of existence
November 24, 2020 | General news
Pulitzer Center Announces Rainforest Investigations Network
The initiative will tackle stories at the intersection of climate change, corruption, and governance in the world’s three main tropical rainforest regions.
November 23, 2020 | General news
Grantee Phillip Martin, Dr. Suraj Yengde Discuss Caste Discrimination in U.S.
This webinar collaboration with Georgetown University’s Berkley Center looks at the ways casteism follows immigrants from South Asia.
November 20, 2020 | Awards
Pulitzer Center-Supported Vox ‘Supertrees’ Series Receives National Press Club Honorable Mention
The multimedia projects profiled three species of trees from the world’s largest rainforests that help stave off global environmental disaster.
November 13, 2020 | General news
Call for Proposals Opens for Inaugural Cohort of Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Investigations Fellows
The 10 journalists will harness data, collaboration, and investigative reporting to tackle stories at the intersection of deforestation, corruption, and governance. The Rainforest Investigations Network will be coordinated by award-winning Brazilian journalist Gustavo Faleiros.
November 06, 2020 | General news
Webinar Gives Tips on Pitching Stories to Rainforest Journalism Fund
Members of the Southeast Asia RJF Advisory Committee shared insights about what makes a strong pitch for RJF’s funding opportunities.
November 05, 2020 | General news
A Conversation with Maria Ressa at Double Exposure
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Boyoung Lim spoke to journalist Maria Ressa about keeping her “eyes wide open” while facing government intimidation and online harassment
January 27, 2021 | High School
Identity in the Time of COVID-19
In this lesson for ELA classes, students reflect on how identity and community have been affected by COVID-19, and the role of media in times of crisis.
January 27, 2021 | Middle School, High School
Poetic Justice: Using Journalism and Poetry to Illuminate Injustice
This unit focuses on the power of both underreported news stories and poetry to tell a story and get to the emotional core of a justice issue.
January 27, 2021 | High School
Food Justice: Planting the Seeds of Change
Students use varied art and media forms to learn about and raise awareness of food (in)security issues around the world and in their own communities.
January 13, 2021 | All Grades
Women on the Move: Analyzing Text and Photography from Eight Migration Stories
Students reflect on stories they have seen about migration, and then analyze text and photography from eight short articles about women from different parts of the world who were forced to migrate.
January 13, 2021 | All Grades
Crossing Borders: Analyzing Infographics to Evaluate Migration Trends
Students will engage with infographics to analyze and communicate global migration trends, and specifically visualize the experience of women who are migrating.
August 17, 2020 | All Grades
A Global Pandemic: Comparing, Contrasting, and Connecting to International Responses to COVID-19
In this lesson, students will analyze the challenges facing communities in Kenya and Hong Kong in stopping COVID-19 and compare their responses to other places' around the world.
August 03, 2020 | All Grades
How to Describe Places to Tell Under-Reported Stories: From Drafting to Editing
In this lesson, students will hear from a journalist who uses writing skills to describe under-reported place, and practice the same skills in original writing.
April 29, 2020 | Elementary
In Their Shoes [Workshop]: Understanding Forced Displacement Around the World
In this workshop, elementary students will learn what it means to be a refugee, explore how four child migrants around the world go to school, and reflect on common threads between their lives.
April 15, 2020 | All Grades
Under-reported Stories of Resilience: Printable Lessons for Students
As students across the world learn remotely, Pulitzer Center is committed to supporting educators with engaging resources that are online and easily printable.
March 18, 2020 | Middle School, High School
Analyzing North Koreans’ Flight to Freedom on the ‘Underground Railroad’
Students analyze reporting recounting a North Korean woman and her children's journey to a new life in South Korea, understand the factors that pushed her to flee, and encounter challenges she faced.
August 16, 2019 | Elementary
Finding a Common Thread: How People Around the World Get Their Food
Engage with the challenges and solutions that communities around the world are grappling with when trying to access vital food sources.
August 15, 2019 | Middle School, High School
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats: China Begins the Next Genome Revolution
Will China’s decision to heavily invest in genome editing of crops payoff in the long run?
