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August 21, 2019 | Field Notes
First Night in Huaraz: Altitude and Accountability
How could the actions of one country mean floods for another? A reflection on the consequences of disregard for climate change.
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Peru
August 05, 2019 | Mongabay
The Wampis: First Indigenous Autonomous Government in Peru Fights Back Against Deforestation (Spanish)
The Wampis Nation is made up of thousands of people whose ancestors have lived in the Amazon rainforest in the north of Peru for centuries. Increasing raids from loggers, miners, and those searching for fossil fuels, in addition to political changes that favor industrial exploitation of natural resources, have left the Wampis more and more worried about the future of their home.
June 21, 2019 | The Washington Post
Mining for Gold in the World’s Highest Permanent Human Settlement
In La Rinconada, Peru, the world’s highest permanent human settlement, climate change, gold fever, a receding Andean glacier and toxic mercury converge.
April 19, 2019 | Mongabay
Peru’s First Autonomous Indigenous Government Strikes Back Against Deforestation
In 2009, special decrees signed by then-president Alan García opened up vast swaths of Peruvian indigenous territory to resource exploitation.
February 28, 2019 | National Geographic Brazil
First Autonomous Nation in the Amazon, Wampis Face Climate Change (Portuguese)
In Peru, 15,000 Indigenous Wampis have declared autonomy from the central government in order to protect their Amazon territory from invaders looking for gold, oil, and hardwoods.
July 11, 2018 | Pulitzer Center
God, Oil, and Peru's Boiling River
What's hiding two hours from a Peruvian city, buried in the Amazon? This short film explores the spiritual and scientific significance of Peru’s boiling river and ways to protect it.
May 04, 2018 | Youtube
High in the Polluted Andes
Peru is the world's second largest zinc, silver, and copper producer and accounts for a whopping 11.2% of zinc output. But with lax regulation, a decade-long pollution crisis remains unsolved.
April 17, 2018 | Greenpeace's Unearthed
The City Built Around a Mine
With mining activity set to expand around Cerro de Pasco, the city's residents continue to struggle with the effects of historic pollution.
April 17, 2018 | PRI's The World
Centuries of Mining Take a Toll on Health in Peruvian Communities
A new generation of children are slowly disappearing in this major mining town and local residents are desperate for help.
March 05, 2018 | Pulitzer Center
Mother Nurture: Female Shaman Defines Girl Power in Male-Dominated Culture
The sole female shaman in her community, a medicinal healer defies social norms in her fight against deforestation, climate change, and cultural extinction.
January 05, 2018 | The Guardian
Giant Curtain Erected in Peru in Bid to Reveal Secrets of the Cloud Forest
Global warming is predicted to push clouds higher in the sky. One scientist hopes to understand the future of our forests by suspending a vast fog-catching mesh in the Peruvian jungle.
October 05, 2017 | NBC News
What Will Climate Change Do to Peru's Cloud Forests?
Dan Metcalfe wants to know what will happen to cloud forests when the mist that bathes them disappears, as climate models predict will occur later this century.
The Threat of an Andean Flood and the City That Lies in Its Wake
It would only take a large piece of glacial ice for Lake Palcacocha to flood Huaraz, the city below it. But Lake Palcacocha is merely a symptom of how our climate crisis is destroying our relationship with the very thing that sustains us: water.
The Impact of the Autonomy of the Wampis People of Peru on the Preservation of the Amazon Forest and Combating Climate Change
In the Peruvian Amazon, 20,000 Wampi Indians decided to organize themselves to defend the jungle from the illegal garimpeiros and the oil industry's ambitions.
How Property Titles Can Change People's Lives in Latin America
What happens when people are given property titles for houses they are living in? This project studies the impacts in three countries.
Pasco Region Residents in Peru Plead for Poisoned Kids
A new generation suffers from heavy metal pollution, with little relief in sight.
In Hot Water: God, Oil, and Peru’s Boiling River
In the sleepy Peruvian rainforest hides an aquatic anomaly, protected by a shaman and for centuries thought only a legend. Explore how native cosmology is helping protect it from climate change.
Laboratory Earth
An unintended planet-wide experiment is underway–leading to warming temperatures and an acidifying ocean.
Seeking Standards: Centralization Takes a Toll on Peru's Public Education System
Obtaining a good education is especially difficult for children raised in rural Peru. Those who leave their families behind for better schooling in cities often face difficulties living on their own.
In Lima Who Owns the Land?
Where would you go if you were homeless, and there was no government assistance? In Lima, Peru many are seeking legal titles to homes where their families have lived for decades.
Saving Eden: Francis Exerts His Moral Authority
Latin America's first pope derides our "throw-away" culture while offering a stern prescription for environmental protection. Will those who revere him in his native region follow his lead?
From Paradise to Peril: The Amazon's Isolated Tribes
Some of the world’s last isolated tribes are poised to make contact with the outside world as illegal loggers, miners, cocaine traffickers and others penetrate their territory.
Uphill Climb: Amazon Birds Might Survive Warming But They’re Not Out of the Woods
Why do many species of Amazon birds live at very specific elevations? A biologist comes up with a novel theory about how global warming might upset the natural order.
Peru: An Aging Revolution
Peru, along with the rest of Latin America, is experiencing one of the fastest demographic shifts in the world. Older people over 60 will outnumber children under 14 by 2040. Is the country ready?
June 18, 2018 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Ricardo Martínez
Grantee Ricardo Martínez spent two weeks at 4,300 meters near Cerro de Pasco, Peru. There, almost 100,000 people have to endure heavy metal pollution every day as it leeches into a 936km2 watershed—and many kids are dying.
January 04, 2016 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalists: Ian James and Steve Elfers
Ian James and Steve Elfers discuss their global investigation into groundwater depletion.
August 14, 2015 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Justin Catanoso
Pope Francis encounters the limits of his moral authority in Latin America, where his encyclical on climate change and environmental protection is met with scorn from those who need to be influenced.
October 03, 2014 | Meet the Journalist
Jim Wickens on Dolphin Slaughter in Peru
As many as 10,000 dolphins are slaughtered off the coast of Peru each year solely for shark bait. Correspondent Jim Wickens reports on this illegal practice in an original undercover investigation.
November 27, 2013 | Meet the Journalist
Journalist Justin Catanoso on Climate Change in the Rainforest
Meet journalist Justin Catanoso who is reporting on climate change from the depths of the Peruvian rainforest.
August 28, 2012 | Meet the Journalist
Simeon Tegel: Reporting on Climate Change in Latin America
From drought in Chihuahua to vanishing glaciers in Ecuador, Simeon Tegel reports that Latin America is already being hit hard by climate change.
April 06, 2012 | Education Resources
Pre-visit materials: Stephen Sapienza
Resources for teachers and students ahead of journalist Stephen Sapienza's visit.
June 27, 2019 | Newsletter
This Week: Modern Slavery In Italy
The Pulitzer Center's newsletter for the week of June 25, 2019.
May 15, 2019 | Project news
The New Yorker Cites Rainforest Journalism Fund Project
Spearheaded by a coalition of Latin American journalists, the project helped shape the backdrop for a New Yorker piece on a court victory for an Ecuadorian indigenous group.
July 11, 2018 | Education news
This Week in Education: Families Divided Along the Border
This week: investigating family separation at the U.S.-Mexico border, performing poetry in front of the White House, and explaining heavy metal mining in Peru.
April 24, 2018 | Newsletter
This Week: The Global Impacts of a Warming Arctic
This week: How global warming is thawing the arctic, children in a Peruvian mining town are suffering negative health effects, and in Kenya refugee children from 19 countries live together.
December 22, 2017 | General news
Filmmaker Bill Gentile Releases 'Fire and Ice on the Mountain'
American University professor travels to Peru to explore the intersection of religion and climate change.
August 07, 2017 | General news
Dan Grossman Profiled by Labocine
Science film site Labocine profiles Pulitzer Grantee Dan Grossman on his coverage of climate change.
August 17, 2016 | Project news, Awards
Vanishing Groundwater Project Receives Knight-Risser Prize for Western Environmental Journalism
Pulitzer Center grantees receive award for helping audiences understand the global significance of groundwater depletion on land rights, livelihoods and the environment.
May 30, 2016 | General news, Education news
Pulitzer Center 2016 Student Fellows Announced
2016 fellows report on a range of complex issues from around the world—from global health and perceptions of identity to environmental degradation and innovation.
April 29, 2016 | General news, Awards
Grantees Receive OPC Honorable Mention for Vanishing Groundwater Series
Comprehensive, interactive reporting project by Ian James and Steve Elfers for The Desert Sun and USA Today is honored by the Overseas Press Club for environmental reporting.
March 25, 2016 | General news, Project news
World Water, Public Health Crises Explored at 2016 Environmental Film Festival
Documentaries screened focus on critical water, health and environmental issues around the globe. Future of environmental journalism also among topics raised during panel discussion.
March 23, 2016 | Education news
News Bites and Lesson Plan of the Week: World Water Day
This week's news on all things Pulitzer Center Education.
January 06, 2016 | Education news
News Bites and Lesson of the Week: Vanishing Groundwater
This week's news on all things Pulitzer Center Education.
July 24, 2019 | All Grades
Toolkit for Your Next Discussion on the Environment and Climate Change
Climate change—an issue that affects us all, no matter where we are in the world. This guide will help begin a conversation about today's under-reported stories surrounding our global crisis.
April 02, 2018 | All Grades
10 Lesson Plans to Celebrate Earth Day
In celebration of Earth Day, we've compiled our top ten lesson plans that feature reporting on how communities around the world are responding to diverse environmental issues.
June 19, 2017 | All Grades
Resources for the University of Chicago Summer Institute for Educators 2017
This plan includes lessons connected to the work of journalists that presented at the University of Chicago Summer Teacher Institute in June 2017.
September 26, 2016 | All Grades
Jewell: Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's "Guernica"
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 Guernica with current day issues presented from The Pulitzer Center.
September 23, 2016 | All Grades
Child Labor
Explore reporting projects related to child labor.
June 17, 2016 | All Grades
Funston: Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's "Guernica"
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 "Guernica" with current day issues presented by the Pulitzer Center.
June 03, 2016 | Middle School, High School
Recycling as a Cultural Issue
Students are asked to read two articles related to religion's take on pollution and two articles from nations where there is an attempt to make recycling a part of the culture.
March 23, 2016 | Middle School, High School
Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's 'Guernica'
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 Guernica with current day issues presented by the Pulitzer Center.
March 23, 2016 | All Grades
World Water Day
The following World Water Day lesson plan and classroom resources for humanities, science, social studies, media and English teachers ask students to investigate four Pulitzer Center reporting...
March 17, 2016 | High School
National Writing Project Resources for Letters to the Next President 2.0
Resources to support student Letters to the Next President inspired and informed by global problems such as water access, climate change, forced migration and more.
March 14, 2016 | All Grades
Pumped Dry: Making Powerful and Persuasive Presentations
The following lesson explores the project "Pumped Dry," which covers the recent shortage of vanishing groundwater. It teaches skills of persuasion.
January 06, 2016 | High School
Summarizing the impact of disappearing groundwater in four countries
Students will discuss how they use water, predict the impacts of a reduced groundwater supply, investigate articles and video, and create advocacy campaigns in support of groundwater regulations.
