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South America

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    Still from a drone video of a combine driving through soybean fields. Image by Sam Eaton. Brazil, 2018.
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    PART OF: The Amazon’s Climate Tipping Point

    For Illegal Loggers in the Brazilian Amazon, 'There Is No Fear of Being Punished'

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    Sam Eaton
    Grantee
    October 4, 2018
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    Fishermen use machetes to hack away the giant scales of the invasive paiche before skinning them and casting the refuse into the river. Growing up to three meters and 250 kilograms, the paiche (Arapaima gigas) is the largest scaled fish in the Amazon and one of the largest freshwater fish on earth. Image by Felipe Luna. Bolivia, 2018.
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    PART OF: The River Giant Invading the Bolivian Amazon

    Our Fish

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    Multiple Authors
    October 4, 2018
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    Brazil holds one-third of the world’s remaining tropical rainforest and until recently it absorbed as much CO2 pollution every year as the amount produced by all the cars on the planet. Now scientists fear that deforestation and climate change are pushing the forest to a tipping point beyond which it will actually release more CO2 into the atmosphere than it captures. Image by Sam Eaton. Brazil, 2018.
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    PART OF: The Amazon’s Climate Tipping Point

    The Amazon Used to be a Hedge Against Climate Change. Those Days May Be Over.

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    Sam Eaton
    Grantee
    October 3, 2018
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  • Boston Public Radio interviewed Sam Eaton. Image courtesy of Boston Public Radio. United States, 2018.
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    Pulitzer Center Update

    Sam Eaton Discusses the Amazon's Carbon Tipping Point with Boston Public Radio

    Sam Eaton sat down with Boston Public Radio to discuss his ongoing series on the Amazon rainforest.

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    Sam Eaton
    Grantee
    October 2, 2018
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    Pulitzer Center Update

    Nathaniel Rich Speaks with Nieman Storyboard

    Nathaniel Rich discusses “Losing Earth,” human inertia, and storytelling as “a moral act” in an...

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    Nathaniel Rich
    Grantee
    September 24, 2018
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    Guajira Indians who call themselves, The Guardians of the Forest and their leader Claudio Da Silva patrolling their ancestral lands. Image from PBS NewsHour. Brazil, 2018.
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    PART OF: The Amazon’s Climate Tipping Point

    Amazon Forest Guardians Fight to Prevent Catastrophic Tipping Point

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    Sam Eaton
    Grantee
    September 14, 2018
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    The Tragedy of the "Good" Orphanage

    We’ve all heard stories about abusive orphanages. But there’s a bigger problem: good orphanages...

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    Tina Rosenberg
    Grantee
    READ MORE ABOUT THIS PROJECT - The Tragedy of the "Good" Orphanage
  • The Rainforest Journalism Fund launch event. At podium: Norway Minister of Climate Ola Elvestuen; right: Pulitzer Center founder and Executive Director Jon Sawyer; left: Amazon advisory board chair Jonathan Watts and board member Eliane Brum. Image by Kem Knapp Sawyer. United States, 2018. 
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    Pulitzer Center Update

    Pulitzer Center Launches Rainforest Journalism Fund at Global Climate Action Summit

    In a major new environmental journalism initiative, the Pulitzer Center is administering a $5.5...

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    Jeff Barrus
    Pulitzer Center Alum
    September 13, 2018
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    Pulitzer Center Update

    Pulitzer Center Launches 5-Year, $5.5 Million Rainforest Journalism Fund

    The Pulitzer Center is pleased to announce the launch of the Rainforest Journalism Fund, a five-year...

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    Jeff Barrus
    Pulitzer Center Alum
    September 12, 2018
  • The community church in Samurindo, Colombia. Religious actors have played complex and diverse roles in over 50 years of armed conflict. Churches have made a decisive difference in the implementation of the 2016 peace accords between the FARC guerrilla group and the Colombian government unfolds. Image by Julia Friedmann. Colombia, 2018.
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    The Role of Faith in Peace and Reconciliation in Colombia

    As both sides struggle to implement the 2016 peace accords in Colombia, religious organizations have...

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    Julia Friedmann
    2018 Reporting Fellow
    READ MORE ABOUT THIS PROJECT - The Role of Faith in Peace and Reconciliation in Colombia
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    Canoes docked by Chocó's capital city, Quibdó. The Río Atrato links the region and serves as the primary transportation for many communities that lack access to paved roads. Image by Julia Friedmann. Colombia, 2018.
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    PART OF: The Role of Faith in Peace and Reconciliation in Colombia

    'A River of Blood': How Colombian Communities Are Fighting to Save the Rio Atrato

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    Julia Friedmann
    2018 Reporting Fellow
    September 10, 2018
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    Mushrooming disaster: Thanks to logging, cattle ranching, and industrial agriculture, 16 percent of the Amazon has already been deforested. Image by Sam Eaton. Brazil, 2018.
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    PART OF: The Amazon’s Climate Tipping Point

    Tropical Forests Are Flipping From Storing Carbon to Releasing It

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    Sam Eaton
    Grantee
    August 30, 2018
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