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.
For European power plants facing a continental commitment to getting off coal, biomass provided a convenient fix.
Justin Catanoso speaks with the secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality.
Deforestation is devastating in Bolivia, but solutions exist. Mario is an organic productor and he has faith in sustainable cultures. Huber and his family are conserving the forest in the family plot.
This year, the NewsHour Weekend special series “Future of Food” covered global efforts to produce and consume food sustainably and ethically. The producers behind the series, Megan Thompson and Melanie Saltzman, joined Hari Sreenivasan to discuss their reporting and how it impacted their own views on food.
Lobstermen are facing a new, imminent threat, one that could drastically change how they’ve operated for generations: regulations to protect North Atlantic right whales.
In this two-part episode, hear from the Gwich’in about what’s at stake for them as development looms in the 1002 area.
Amy Martin and Nick Mott document controversies over oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Ian Teh documents the changing landscape and shifting water resources surrounding China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau near the Yellow River.
We continue our reporting from Kaktovik, Alaska—the only town within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—to find out how the conflict over drilling for oil in the refuge feels to those who live there.
By the end of the century, sea levels off the Georgia coast are expected to rise anywhere from one to eight feet.
The beef industry is destroying the rainforest. The sustainable rubber industry might be part of saving it.
Bolsa Verde provided support for around 76,000 families living in extreme poverty in or near protected areas in the Amazon, but the program was suspended without warning in 2017. And measures taken by the Bolsonaro government are putting pressure on forest protectors.
Jon Sawyer, Pulitzer Center
Two weeks of briefings and field interviews on water and sanitation, first in Istanbul at the World Water Forum and then in Ethiopia, leave three indelible impressions.
Jon Sawyer, Pulitzer Center
Population Services International (PSI), the non-profit long known for its international distribution of condoms, is all about prevention – which is why PSI is now a big player on clean water, too.
For Pakistani television journalist Shehryar Mufti it's the underreported role of water resources in his country's long-running conflict with India over Kashmir.
Jon Sawyer, Pulitzer Center
This dispatch was featured on the St. Louis Beacon's online publication on 3-23-09 as an Editor's Pick.
ISTANBUL, Turkey – An international gathering devoted to water's dominant role in global disease and health was rich in rhetoric and sparse on anything in the way of tangible policy breakthroughs.
The American Museum of Natural History will screen Jennifer Redfearn's short work-in-progress video of "Sun Come Up," a documentary that follows the relocation of a community of climate change refugees living on a chain of low-lying islands in the South Pacific Ocean. More info about the event
Update: Voices of America (VOA) has coverage of this event here and a video from the Water Wars project by Ernest Waititu.
How does the Universal Declaration of Human Rights fit in when it comes to water issues?
In July 2008, The Pulitzer Center partnered with Helium to produce its forth round of the Global Issues/Citizen Voices Writing contest. Contestents chose from multiple writing prompts related to international issues and Pulitzer Center reporting projects to sculp their winning essays. Read the winning essays below.
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting projects received an Honorable Mention and two Notable Entries in the annual Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism.
The Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism spotlight news and information providers who offer more than multimedia journalism. The awards honor novel efforts that seize and create opportunities to involve citizens in public issues and supply entry points that invite their participation or spark their imagination.
On July 10th, The Common Language team presented their reporting on the growing water crisis in Ethiopia and Kenya to Americans for Informed Democracy's Global Scholar Program. The course seeks to give students a historical overview of international affairs and a background on the most important international institutions. It takes an in-depth look at globalization and the U.S. role in our increasingly globalized world.
In June 2008, The Pulitzer Center partnered with Helium to continue its third round of the Global Issues/Citizen Voices Writing Contest. Contestants chose topics for their essays from prompts related to different Pulitzer Center reporting projects. Find their winning essays below.
How does stigma and discrimination, as witnessed in Jamaica, perpetuate the global HIV/AIDS epidemic?
Read winning essay by Glynnis Hayward
"Water Wars," a Pulitzer Center-commissioned video that addresses how a decreasing water supply is fueling conflict in East Africa, aired on DePauw University's The World is Talking television program in May 2008.
View the video and the rest of the program on The World is Talking blog.
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