Environment
As drilling operators search for shale gas in Poland, residents demand more information about the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing—fracking—on their communities.
Control of Eastern Congo’s minerals has been a key driver in the fighting that has killed over 5 million people. A new project may have the answer – to produce conflict-free tin from a mine.
Stephen Sapienza reports on shale gas fracking in Poland for PBS Newshour.
A Dutch royal has a plan to end the violence that 'conflict minerals' have caused in South Kivu. Will it work?
Nearly two dozen Campus Consortium student fellows undertake reporting around the globe in 2013.
On the rocky ground outside the Kollo gold mining village near the border between Burkina Faso and Ghana, about 100 people are working, 30 of them children.
The community-based Organoponico Vivero Alamar farm appeals to its workers and promotes sustainability—it also attracts visitors and students of organic agriculture.
As demand for palm oil grows, thousands of child laborers toil on Malaysia's plantations.
Two States, Three Countries, Four Opponents of Fracking.
Armed militias running illegal poaching and mining rackets and backed by a powerful army general come into conflict with conservation efforts—and the local population bears the brunt of the fallout.
Dimiter Kenarov reflects on his five-week U.S. tour during which he traveled across the country to engage with communities on his Pulitzer Center project, "Shale Gas: From Poland to Pennsylvania."
In Kinshasa, Africa's fastest-growing city, a new haven for Congo's wealthy burdens some of its poor.
Subsistence mining is now Congo's largest employment sector—attracting adults and children alike. Chinese investment is driving its growth.