Around the world, the environment is increasingly under threat from industrial pollution, business development of the wilderness and climate change. Pulitzer Center stories tagged with “Environment” feature reporting that covers climate change, deforestation, biodiversity, pollution, and other factors that impact the health of the world around us. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on the environment.
The Brazilian city Sinop embodies the aspirations of a prosperous Amazonian agro-industry — especially now, with the prospect of a railroad that will help send exports to China.
The movement led by Chico Mendes in the 1980s has seen a resurgence in the face of government attacks and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Soy and agriculture have helped a small city in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso prosper economically—to the point that the per capita income is 40% higher than the national average.
The overuse of pesticides poses serious socio-environmental threats. But in Pará, disinformation threatens efforts to control their use.
Four species of endangered primates are endemic to the Mentawai Islands. Their last refuge is Siberut National Park.
North Carolina has recently boosted its efforts to study and prepare for climate change while some say that work to address rising sea levels had begun years earlier.
Four species of endangered primates are endemic to the Mentawai Islands. Their last refuge is Siberut National Park.
The push for hydropower is inadvertently causing long-term environmental damage to traditional hunting grounds on Inuit public lands.
Climate change is coming for our backyard septic tanks, and eventually, our municipal waste treatment systems. Are communities willing to pay the high cost to upgrade them?
With Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on a ‘mission from God’ to settle the Amazon and carve it up for economic gain, Beijing’s growing reliance on the country for its soybean supply spells disaster for the region’s peoples and its rainforests.
Bolivia has one of the highest deforestation rates in the world. Intensive agriculture and livestock are primarily responsible, but coca production is destroying the forest too.
In the tenth episode of this series, Leide Aquino and Julio Barbosa discuss their upbringing in the forest and the social movements that moved them.
Much is riding on the race to identify and distribute the biological diversity of areas occupied by civil war that the government of Colombia will be receiving as part of the peace deal.
Sharks are disappearing from the Eastern Pacific, as predators become prey to fishing companies hunting their fins. The story of one family's shark empire sheds light on these lawless seas.
Up Canada's West Coast in search of the world's biggest unreported land conflict.
Weeks after Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico, the island continues its battle for food, water and electricity. Ryan Michalesko reports on the fate of this U.S. territory and its people.
Venezuela is facing its biggest crisis yet: a high inflation rate, shortage of food and medicine, and abuse of power by authorities. And that's only part of the picture.
Although Algeria is a low emitter of greenhouse gasses, environmental changes like lower rainfall, higher temperatures, and longer cycles of drought have slashed profits for Algerian sheepherders.
Hurricane Harvey caused unprecedented flooding of the U.S. Gulf Coast. Alex MacLean and Daniel Grossman fly over the region to report on the damage and seek lessons for better storm resilience.
The uranium boom reshaped the American southwest in the 1950s and 1960s. Ben Mauk reports on the industry's environmental legacy and economic future.
Fine sand is fast disappearing along Lagos coastlines due to unchecked dredging activities. Miners continue with this endeavour despite the environmental impact on Lagos communities.
South African wildlife sits on the brink of disaster as rhinos continue to be poached. With so much at stake, villagers fight to protect the keystone species, resources, and the tourism industry.
More than 30 years after the world's worst industrial accident, the people of Bhopal are still dealing with its long-term and health and environmental fallout. Whose responsibility is it to help them?
Chile is internationally known as a producer of world-class wines. However, the effects of desertification on vineyards have a dire impact on the wine industry.
Melting ice and rising seas threaten to displace communities around the world.
Pulitzer Center interns Elana Dure and Seiler Smith look back over a year of Field Notes and compile some of their favorites.
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The new climate agreement is good news, but there is much more to be done.
This week's news on all things Pulitzer Center Education.
Director of American University's Backpack Journalism Project documents the intersection between community and environment in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Journalists focus on human implications of drastic shifts in global climate in advance of the Paris COP21 talks on climate change
"Defending the Koshi" by Pulitzer Center's 2013 student fellows, Steve Matzker and Jennifer Gonzalez, will screen as an "Official Selection" at the 13th Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival.
International media organizations nominate 'Fatal Extraction' for innovation in multimedia storytelling.
The Ganges is dying under the weight of modern India.
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