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March 02, 2017 | The New York Times
A Glimpse of the Workers Who Make Your Clothes
Pulitzer Center grantee Jošt Franko was featured on The New York Times Lens Blog for his work on the cotton trade.
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Romania
November 19, 2015 | Pulitzer Center
How World Bank Funding Affects Romania's Markets
Foreign supermarkets and discount chains are popping up throughout Bucharest making it difficult for local vendors too eke out a living.
July 03, 2015 | The Guardian
Lidl Has Received Almost $1 Billion in Public Development Funding
Supermarket chain owned by one of Germany’s wealthiest families lent money over past decade by World Bank and others as it expands into eastern Europe.
November 04, 2014 | Pulitzer Center
Ukraine's Dead Sea
Kuyalnik Estuary is a large brackish lake on the outskirts of Odessa, Ukraine, and home to one of the country's oldest sanatoriums. Today it is on the brink of environmental disaster.
February 06, 2014 | Pulitzer Center
Tarnished: The True Cost of Gold
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.
July 16, 2012 | Virginia Quarterly Review
Romania: Mountains of Gold
The Rosia Montana mine is one of the oldest mines in the world, but now it threatens to destroy the ancient village it long ago built.
January 10, 2012 | Pulitzer Center
Memories of Red: Gold Mining in Romania's Rosia Montana
The Romanian government is eager for investment from international mining companies, but local residents in a historic mining town fear an environmental disaster.
September 19, 2011 | Pulitzer Center
Romania: Beekeeper Refuses to Leave His Hives
Remus Cenusa is one of the last 40 residents in a Romanian village who is refusing a resettlement offer from Rosia Montana Gold Corporation. The beekeeper wants to remain under the buzz of his bees.
September 06, 2011 | Pulitzer Center
Heir to Romania's Mining History Defends Stake
An ancient Romanian mining town is wary of losing its historical roots to a large-scale open pit mine.
September 02, 2011 | Pulitzer Center
The Farmer-Philosopher of Rosia Montana
Eugen David, a farmer in Rosia Montana, refuses to sell out to corporate interests who want to build the world's largest open-pit gold mine on his land.
August 24, 2011 | Pulitzer Center
The Sermon on Rosia Montana
In Romania, the Rosia Montana Gold Corporation plans to begin a large-scale mining operation. The operation will likely mean the end of the Transylvanian town that has occupied this site for centuries.
August 23, 2011 | McClatchy
Thirst for Gold Threatens Historic Mining Center in Romania
Rosia Montana has a long tradition of mining that stretches back more than 2,000 years, but a new open-pit gold mining site would destroy original mining tunnels and limit archaeological research.
The Black Sea: An Environmental Crisis
The Black Sea region has become the focus of heated geopolitical contention, but local environmental issues remain underreported and poorly understood.
Toxic Riches
Poorly regulated mining and refining facilities are causing enormous devastation, while corporate interests are pushing ever harder to exploit the untapped mineral resources of the continent.
August 29, 2017 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Dimiter Kenarov
Circumnavigating and sometimes crisscrossing the sea by ferry, visiting settlements and protected sites, Dimiter Kenarov draws a new environmental map of the Black Sea and its coastal area.
April 13, 2017 | General news
National Geographic Your Shot 'Strong Women' Finalists Selected
National Geographic photographer, Amy Toensing and Deputy Director of Photography, Whitney Johnson, select the final photographs for Your Shot assignment.
March 03, 2017 | General news
NatGeo Your Shot Features Photos of Inspiring Women
NatGeo Your Shot features photographs of inspiring women from around the world.
December 23, 2015 | General news
2015: A Year in Photos
The Pulitzer Center staff share favorite images from 2015.
August 07, 2015 | Project news
Should You Run an NGO Like a Business?
Governments and aid organizations routinely earmark billions of dollars for overseas aid. Could "privatized" forms of aid prevent that money from going to waste?
February 19, 2014 | General news, Project news
Tarnished: The True Cost of Gold
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.
December 23, 2012 | General news
2012: A Year in Photos
The Pulitzer Center staff share their favorite photos from 2012.
May 28, 2011 | Project news
Nieman Reports Highlights Pulitzer Center's "Toxic Europe" Project
Dimiter Kenarov and Nadia Shira Cohen's Pulitzer Center project "Toxic Europe" is highlighted on the Nieman Reports home page.
September 15, 2019 | Middle School, High School
The Weekly: Examining the Politics and Human Stories of Migration
Students learn about the asylum-seeking process and family separation at the U.S.-Mexico border, while also exploring themes connected to migration and refugees more broadly.
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.
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.
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.
October 12, 2015 | All Grades
Museum of Current Crises
This lesson plan outlines a project that allows students the opportunity to connect with a contemporary crisis somewhere in the world.
