The Pulitzer Center's Climate and Environment initiatives support journalism and audience engagement on the most pressing issues facing the planet's ecosystems and the communities who rely on them. Topics covered by Pulitzer Center reporting include rainforests, oceans, climate change, pollution, extractive industries, and more.
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OPPORTUNITIES FOR JOURNALISTS
Through reporting grants and yearlong fellowship programs, we provide the financial support, collaborative networks, training, and mentorship for hundreds of journalists each year to pursue in-depth investigations and audience engagement on underreported issues impacting our environment and climate.
CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT GRANT
Rainforest Reporting Grant
Our rainforest reporting grants support proposals on systemic rainforest and environmental topics such as mining and deforestation, Indigenous and land rights, resource exploitation, and more. This grant is open all year and applications can be in English, bahasa Indonesia, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.
CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT GRANT
Ocean and Fisheries Reporting Grant
The Pulitzer Center is seeking ambitious reporting proposals from freelance and staff journalists from around the world who wish to report on vital ocean and fisheries issues and are in need of support for their reporting projects.
CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT GRANT
Climate and Labor Reporting Grant
The Pulitzer Center is now accepting applications for a new reporting grant focused on climate change and its effects on workers and work.
CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT GRANT
U.S. Coastlines Reporting Grant
The Pulitzer Center is seeking applications from journalists who want to report stories on the local effects of erratic weather patterns on coastal populations using the latest climate science.
CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT GRANT
U.S. Local Reporting Grant
The Pulitzer Center is seeking ambitious reporting proposals from freelance and staff journalists serving local U.S. communities on the big, underreported stories that affect us all.
CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT GRANT
Global Reporting Grant
The Pulitzer Center’s global reporting grants support in-depth, high-impact reporting on critical issues that are often overlooked in the media, from global health to climate change.
CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT FELLOWSHIP
Rainforest Investigations Network
The Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN) seeks to leverage investigative reporting and cross-border collaboration to address stories at the intersection of climate change, corruption, and governance in the world's three main rainforest regions: the Amazon, Congo Basin, and Southeast Asia.
CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT FELLOWSHIP
Ocean Reporting Network
The Ocean Reporting Network (ORN) uncovers the harmful and illegal practices of the fishing and extractive industries, systemic threats to marine biodiversity and coastal communities, and the supply chains facilitating global demand for the ocean’s increasingly dwindling resources.
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We create communities of learning that amplify Pulitzer Center journalism through education and outreach programs, connecting teachers, students, artists, and decision makers with stories that matter. Explore upcoming events and browse lesson plans for grade school educators to engage students with Pulitzer Center journalism.
CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION
Primary and Secondary Education Lesson Plans
Browse the latest plans inspired by Pulitzer Center climate and environment journalism.
CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT ENGAGEMENT
Public and University Events
Explore in-personal and virtual events featuring Pulitzer Center journalists, educators, academics, and experts on a broad range of climate and environment topics.
PULITZER CENTER IMPACT
We believe in the power of journalism, education, and public outreach to create real-world change. The work we support engages communities with vital issues that affect their lives, sparks policy and regulatory reform, and holds powerful people and institutions to account.
CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT IMPACT
Teachers in Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Commit to Promote Forest Protection Through Their Lessons
A total of 30 primary and secondary school teachers and headmasters, plus 20 students from Bunia's Institut Superieur Pedagogique, were made aware of the importance of integrating the concepts of forest protection and climate change into their teaching methods, as well as the responsibility of every citizen to develop protective reflexes.
CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT IMPACT
Nestlé Drops Supplier Linked to Indigenous Land Invasions
Nestlé, the world’s largest food company, has removed Marfrig from its list of suppliers in Brazil, a year after a Pulitzer Center-supported investigation by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) linked the beef giant to purchases of cattle from seized Indigenous land.
CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT IMPACT
Pulitzer Center-Supported Reporting Spurs Brazilian Police Investigation Into Abuse of Indigenous Children
The Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF) of Amazonas state in Brazil announced it would launch an investigation into the abuse of Indigenous Jamamadi children, following reporting by Pulitzer Center Rainforest Journalism Fund grantee Tatiana Merlino.
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Each week, the Pulitzer Center newsletter features a selection of underreported international news stories supported by the Pulitzer Center.
