Decades of mining for jade has left the landscape desolate. Local activists want to make a change. However, can they stand up to the powerful companies that dominate the industry?
Twice as many residents caught COVID-19 at Mississippi's for-profit nursing homes, and nearly three times more died there, an analysis of health data by the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting shows.
A lack of COVID-19 protections only scratches the surface of a long line of injustices suffered by migrant farmworkers who have lived in unsafe conditions and faced labor exploitation for years.
In two hours, more than 3 inches fell by Charleston’s medical district as streets turned into rapids. Have the floods gotten worse in recent years? “No doubt,” said one resident.
Between the end of North Carolina's eviction moratorium and the start of the federal government's, landlords in the state filed evictions against more than 18,000 tenants.
While traditional and Indigenous populations use controlled fire in subsistence agriculture, a novel analysis shows that the recent increase in fire hotspots in the Amazon is related to expanding illegal deforestation.
A detailed analysis reveals the intrinsic relationship between fire and deforestation in the Amazon over the past two years.
As the pace of sea level rise accelerates and flooding becomes more frequent, marginalized communities are hit hardest.
The World Health Organization suggests frequent hand washing to help combat COVID-19. But this recommendation can be hard to implement in Nigeria, where over half of households do not have access to water on their premises.
Millions will be displaced. Where will they go?
People in Myanmar's western state are battling a surge in coronavirus in the midst of escalating conflict. The uprising is the latest in a state with a troubled history.
For centuries, the Quilombola people, descendants of escaped African slaves, have survived against insurmountable odds in the Amazon rainforest. Now industrial pollution and a pandemic are threatening their existence.
Time's Lightbox highlights Matt Black's journey through impoverished America. Every town he visits has a poverty level above 20 percent.
Photojournalist takes first place for issue reporting from White House News Photographers Association and second prize from World Press Photo.
Photographer Yana Paskova finds that for Bulgaria, democracy doesn't necessarily mean prosperity.
The Pulitzer Center staff shares favorite images from 2014.
At the Media Rise Festival 2014 some memorable lessons in the power of story.
We can now envision a post-AIDS world, but marginalized communities are still being left behind. In the global fight against AIDS, business as usual will not end the epidemic.
Pulitzer Center grantee Mattathias Schwartz visits D.C. schools to discuss the effects of the U.S."war on drugs" in one country along the supply route and the dangers of vilifying people and places.
The Pulitzer Center staff shares favorite images from 2013.
Dan Havlik of Imaging Resource interviews grantee and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Larry C. Price on his powerful photo project documenting child labor in gold mines.
Pulitzer Center journalists Jim Wickens and Erik Vance visit DC classrooms to discuss ocean issues with students.
Journalists Nick Miroff and Daniel Connolly visit DC classrooms, photographer Louie Palu joins them at George Washington University, for a discussion on drug trafficking and US-Mexico border issues.
Multiple Pulitzer Center grantees have been recognized by Pictures of the Year International for their work.
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