The Deadliest Village in Russia
At the front line in Russia's war on terrorism, it's a war not just of bullets and bombs, but of ideas; and it's a war the Kremlin appears to be losing.
At the front line in Russia's war on terrorism, it's a war not just of bullets and bombs, but of ideas; and it's a war the Kremlin appears to be losing.
Many of the wounded who come to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center arrive with nothing but whatever they happen to be wearing.
Germany's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center is the first destination for American troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The lowest donor country in the Eurotransplant network, Germany's growing percentage of organ donations comes from unlikely sources.
On mothers Day in Norway the NGO Congo Women projected a multimedia piece, including images by Marcus Bleasdale, on the facade of the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway.
Human egg donors in Spain are predominantly immigrant women with few other legal options for making money.
More than 1000 people died in the Paris Heat Wave of 2003. Now other parts of the world, including the U.S., could soon face significantly increased climate extremes.
For many youth, a warming world is more than an abstract threat. Within the lifetimes of today's young adults and children, climate change could lead to food shortages, changing coastlines and catastrophic storms. An October 2009 Pew Research Poll found that young Americans are more likely than any other age group to view climate change as "a very serious problem." About 2,000 young people voiced those concerns at the 2009 United Nations climate talks in Copenhagen, where world leaders tried – and failed – to agree on a treaty to curb heat-trapping gases.
In an article on how he brings foreign news reporting to new audiences, photojournalist Iason Athanasiadis pays tribute to the Pulitzer Center for funding his past reporting projects in Iran, Turkey and Greece.
Pulitzer Center Student Fellow Sara Peach interviewed youth leaders and activists from around the world attending the COP15 conference for her reporting project "Youth Change the Climate in Copenhagen."
In the last 18 months I have traveled through five continents reporting about research on, and impacts of, climate change. In Europe I reported on the heatwave of 2003, which scientists say was made more likely by Earth's rising temperatures. I interviewed researchers who predict more and warmer extreme heat events in the coming decades. In India and Bangladesh I reported on the impacts and possible responses to rising sea levels caused by melting glaciers and warming sea water.
Pulitzer Center Student Fellow Sara Peach interviewed youth leaders and activists from around the world attending the COP15 conference for her reporting project "Youth Change the Climate in Copenhagen."
In these segments, Peach captures perspectives on climate change from youth around the world.