Climate and Environment
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Pulitzer Center Update
Allison Shelley Named FotoWeekDC's 2017 Grand Prize Winner
Shelley's photo from the project, "Canaan: Haiti's Promised Land," won the grand prize for...
October 30, 2017 -
In El Salvador abortion is illegal, violence against women common, and sex ed extremely limited. Did...
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Project
Colombia's Hot Moment
Much is riding on the race to identify and distribute the biological diversity of areas occupied by...
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Lesson Plans
Exotic Pets and Impacts on the Food Chain
Students will be able to describe the impacts of removing exotic animals from their native environment, including impacts on the food chain, using details from reporting by Sean Gallagher. Within this...
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Project
People of the Kelp
Up Canada's West Coast in search of the world's biggest unreported land conflict.
![Dissident FARC militants continue to operate in the Guaviare district of Colombia. Like many in the region, farmer Luis Vergara of El Retorno, pictured, is still forced to pay taxes to the guerillas each month. "It's a nuisance but you do it," he said. He is reforesting some of his land that borders patches of Amazon forest with Colombian Amazon hardwood trees that grow quickly. The farm was previously a coca plantation. He now raises cattle on the rest of his land, which is now large open fields that were…](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/10-05-17/img_2074.jpg.webp?h=a5eb5da0&itok=HDdxw1f- "Dissident FARC militants continue to operate in the Guaviare district of Colombia. Like many in the region, farmer Luis Vergara of El Retorno, pictured, is still forced to pay taxes to the guerillas each month. "It's a nuisance but you do it," he said. He is reforesting some of his land that borders patches of Amazon forest with Colombian Amazon hardwood trees that grow quickly. The farm was previously a coca plantation. He now raises cattle on the rest of his land, which is now large open fields that were protected forests. Image by Lisa Palmer. Colombia, 2017.")
