Peru
As part of the latest Campus Consortium visit to SIUC, filmmaker Stephen Sapienza focuses on the environmental and sociopolitical factors contributing to Peru's gold rush.
Join the Pulitzer Center for a film screening and discussion on the impact of natural resource extraction on the environment, indigenous populations, public health and corporate responsibility.
Marcelino Coila Choque is from a family of fishermen in Peru. From his small village along Lake Titicaca, he has watched the lake's water turn opaque and the fish population plummet.
Peruvians and Bolivians who depend on Lake Titicaca say pollution complicates their work and even puts their livelihoods at risk. This report traces water from Andean glaciers to the lake itself.
The farmers of Nueva Esperanza, on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, are growing crops in the desert by using giant mesh nets to harvest droplets of water from fog.
The world’s glaciers are melting, but almost nothing is being done to slow the warming that is causing the problem. In some parts of the world, people are taking matters into their own hands.
Journalist Steve Sapienza's visit to High Point University reveals how global consumption of goods impacts precious resources and local people in Peru, Thailand and beyond.
Emmy Award-winning journalist Steve Sapienza and student fellow Yasmin Bendaas share the stage at Wake Forest University, discussing their unique reporting projects.
Journalist Steve Sapienza visits Guilford College as part of the Pulitzer Center Campus Consortium visit to North Carolina Triad-area universities.
From drought in Chihuahua to vanishing glaciers in Ecuador, Simeon Tegel reports that Latin America is already being hit hard by climate change.
Climate change imperils sprawling Lima, already one of the world’s driest cities.
Latin America now faces the challenge of coping with the potentially devastating impacts of climate change.
Climate change and government infrastructure fail to support a stable water supply on Peru's desert coast.