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August 24, 2020
History of Water in the Desert
This multimedia project provides a panoramic view of the water difficulties during the spread of COVID-19, in the southern and northern extremes of Lima, Peru.
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June 03, 2020 | Süddeutsche Zeitung
Stairway Into Nothing (German)
When the temperatures rise in the mountains, living things have an advantage: they can climb up. But what happens when the summit is reached? This can be seen in the Peruvian Manú National Park.
May 19, 2020 | Pulitzer Center
In Order to Talk About Climate Change, We Need to Talk About Colonialism
Remnants of colonialism have left many Peruvians distrustful of local and foreign authorities—no matter the intent. In order to fight climate change in a neo-colonial setting, communication is key.
May 19, 2020 | IDL-Reporteros
In the Shadows of the Pandemic (Spanish)
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, people living with HIV in Peru not only face risk of infection but also hunger and barriers to treatment. Transgender people and migrants have been hit the hardest.
May 02, 2020 | Ojo Publico
The Bus That Never Arrives: Migrants Stranded in the Streets of Lima Taken by the Pandemic (Spanish)
Some streets of La Victoria have become camps for displaced people seeking to return to their regions. The drama of Covid-19 forced migration continues and escalates hourly.
March 02, 2020 | Virginia Quarterly Review
Ill Nature
When the glaciers melted in Quispillaccta, Peru, an ancient cycle began again. Science tells us climate change ails the highlands; an Andean fable says it is the beginning of the end.
February 05, 2020 | Scientific American
Peru’s Peatlands Could Greatly Accelerate Global Warming
The vast region may stay wet—or dry up and burn—depending on whether Indigenous people want to continue to work the land.
February 04, 2020 | Nature
The Scientists Restoring a Gold-Mining Disaster Zone in the Peruvian Amazon
Researchers investigate notorious gold-mining zone in an effort to help the Peruvian government with what could be the largest and most complex tropical reforestation project ever undertaken.
December 09, 2019 | Pulitzer Center
Huaraz at a Glance: Distrust, Determination, and Climate Crisis
Gain a sense of the sights and sounds of Huaraz, Perú, and the mountains that surround the Andean city.
November 26, 2019 | Pulitzer Center
In Peru: Banking Water for a Drier Future
A community in the highlands of Peru is building lakes to bank water for a drier future.
October 11, 2019 | Piauí
Between the Cross and the Electric Saw (Portuguese)
In the depths of the Amazon, a Catholic nun confronts a reality with few priests, a wave of evangelical preachers—and deforestation. Meanwhile in Rome, the Pope holds a special Synod on the region.
September 30, 2019 | Notícias da Hora
Residents of the Triple Border Between Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru Impact and Are Impacted by the Use of Fires During the Amazon Dry Spell (Portuguese)
Brazil's triple border with Bolivia and Peru is a good picture of what has been pointed out as one of the most critical moments for the survival of the world's most important rainforest.
Water Crisis on the Edge
Multimedia reportage focused on the most vulnerable communities in the city of Lima, facing the COVID-19 with limited or no access to water.
Carbon Chronicles
With journalists in Indonesia and Brazil, the stories in this project highlight how tropical forests in Costa Rica, Indonesia, and Amazonia might ameliorate—or, to the contrary, aggravate—climate change. The project also explores the current impacts of climate change on people and wildlife.
In the Andes: Climate Change Adaptation and an Apocalypse Fable
Legend tells of an Andean society that lived before Christ and died by the heat of three suns. Andeans say this old ending has returned as global warming. Communities are building lakes to prepare.
Fire on the Triple Frontier of the Amazon
This project analyzes how the fire in the Amazon rainforest impacted the triple frontier between Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru.
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.
Protecting the Amazon's Isolated Tribes
Scientists explore cutting-edge technologies as indigenous communities and government agencies work to protect isolated tribes – and the forest ecosystems they depend on – in the Peruvian Amazon.
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.
Escalator to Extinction
On a remote Peruvian mountain scientists showed that birds have moved uphill and the top ones even did extirpate. Is this the beginning of a massive retreat from the tropics because of climate change?
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.
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.
