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Small-scale gold mining is the largest source of mercury emissions produced by humans. In Indonesia child miners are exposed to mercury which can cause tremors, memory loss, and brain damage.
Child miners are exposed to highly toxic mercury which can be absorbed through the skin, ingested in food and water, or inhaled from vapors.
Cross continents with eleven of our grantee journalists as they take you into the mines to show you where we get our gold––exposing the hidden social and environmental costs of this business.
By teaching farmers new tricks of the trade and equipping them with microloans, NGOs in Cambodia are creating economic stability — a proactive way to stop human trafficking before it starts.
The sanitization of Brazil's image before the 2014 World Cup could have serious implications for sex workers.
Dealing with any one of the many threats to Tonle Sap would be daunting. The only real solution may be to take them all on at once.
For centuries, the flood pulse of this lake has fed a nation and nurtured incredible biodiversity. With a changing climate and scores of dams planned upstream on the Mekong, can it survive?
On Feb. 14, the Pulitzer Center releases its newest e-Book on the environmental and human prices of gold mining. Whether this resource is produced in a way that is fair to all is very much up to us.
Leather produced in the city of Kanpur, destined for Western markets, is causing severe pollution to the air, water and soil, leaving a trail of severe illnesses and ecological devastation.
There is no point in taking a camera down into the depths of an underwater compressor mine. There is nothing to see. But Larry Price's stark photography shows men working in this hellish occupation.
In the Philippines, people desperate to make a living dive into the muddy waters of makeshift mines in search of gold.
Photojournalist and Pulitzer Center grantee Larry Price documents the almost unimaginable dangers of compressor mining in the Philippines. A broadcast report airs on the PBS NewsHour.
Although Trinidad and Tobago enjoys a relatively high per-capita GDP in the Western Hemisphere, the island federation's murder rate surpasses that of Mexico.