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Pakistan's truck art is famously lavish. But what motivates truckers to spend thousands of dollars on decorations?
China's investment in Zambia holds promise: billions of dollars and thousands of jobs. But after violent conflict between Zambian miners and their Chinese supervisors, does it also pose a threat?
Has Chinese investment helped or hurt Zambians? Or has it done both?
Technological innovations and competition from China have devastated Wisconsin's paper industry.
Paper is analog, offline and as old as civilization. But as the paper industry globalized, it heightened US-China frictions, infuriated environmentalists and cast US competitiveness in a new light.
Faced with the devastating twin threats of digital and China, can a critical Wisconsin industry survive?
Pulitzer Center photographers discuss their reporting projects on commodities from around the world at George Washington University.
Profitable as it is for multi-national companies, palm oil is extracted at a heavy social and environmental cost, making it one of the most controversial commodities in the world.
Palm oil boom in Indonesia and Malaysia is doing irreparable damage to rare biodiversity and accelerating the effects of global warming.
Ma Li is, by most accounts, a “good broker" who helps fellow migrants find a safe path into the Thai shrimp processing industry. Of course, she makes some money too.
The islands of the Philippines are rich in gold. But extracting the ore can be dangerous and often fatal.
Compression mining is dangerous and illegal, but the lure of gold tempts many to take the risk.
Kyaw Thaung covers migrant worker issues in the Thai seafood industry. He's also an activist and, occasionally, he’s in the odd position of reporting on news events that he has helped orchestrate.