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Climate and the Environment reporting supported by the Pulitzer Center focuses 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.

For this grant cycle, we are specifically seeking proposals for civic engagement projects centering reporting on U.S fisheries and fishing communities or climate and labor. Explore the stories below to find one that could connect to a civic engagement project for your audience(s). Then, review the open call announcement for the U.S. Civil Society Micro-grant initiative to plan and submit an application for your project!

FOCUS TOPIC | climate and labor

Story Publication Date Region
Inside the Indonesian Boomtowns Powering the World’s Electric Vehicles by Wufei Yu October 8, 2025 China and Indonesia
In Sunderbans, Women Feel the Heat by Ritwika Mitra April 29, 2025 India
After the LA Fires, Scientists Study the Toxic Hazards Left Behind by Nina Dietz May 25, 2025 United States
The Olive Oil Crisis by Lauren Markham July 1, 2025 Greece
Women Oil Palm Workers Need Special Protection in Climate Crisis by Suwandi Wendy November 14, 2024 Indonesia
The Sky No Longer Gives Warning: The Isolation of Small-Scale Farming in the Face of the Climate Crisis in María La Baja (Spanish) by Betty Zambrano Zabaleta and Ana María Jessie Serna March 17, 2026 Colombia
Oil Spills and Lack of Infrastructure: Where the Government and the Province of Neuquén Plan To Build Mega Data Centers (Spanish) by Matías Di Santi March 31, 2026 Argentina
The Floods Kept Coming. He Needed To Grow a Crop That Would Thrive in Water — or To Quit by Julia Rendleman, Molly Parker, and Lylee Gibbs September 5, 2025 United States
How Texas Oil Workers, Technology Are Helping Build a New Renewable Boom by Saul Elbein March 24, 2025 United States
Mekong Village Turns To Mangrove as Delta Sinks and Erodes by Lue Palmer and Minh Ha December 1, 2025 Vietnam

FOCUS TOPIC | fisheries and fishing communities in the U.S.

Story Publication Date Region
Shrinking Prize: Challenges Mount for Alaska and Washington Fishing Crews As Halibut Decline by Hal Bernton and Loren Holmes November 15, 2025 United States, North America
Split Quota Continues Between Indigenous, Commercial Harvesters for Contentious Baby Eel Fishery by Jenn Thornhill Verma March 25, 2026 Canada
How the ‘Galápagos of West Africa’ Is Plundered by Floating Fish Factories by Davide Mancini March 9, 2026 Guinea-Bissau
Havoc as Tanzania’s Fish Exports Plummet by Sylivester Domasa and Annika McGinnis June 3, 2024 Tanzania
‘The Salmon People’: How Alaska’s Only Native Reservation Saved Its Fishing Culture by Nathaniel Herz April 8, 2026 United States
The Dark Seas of Deception: Unmasking EU Fisheries in West Africa’s Troubled Waters by Gideon Sarpong November 27, 2023 Guinea-Bissau
Blood on the Sardines: Yemen’s Reserves Plundered Across the Borders by Mohammed Hafeedh January 20, 2026 Yemen
In New England, Climate Change Is Moving Fast. The Fishing Industry Is Not by Barbara Moran, Duy Linh Tu, and Darryl C. Murphy January 15, 2025 United States
How Climate Change Impact on Fisheries Is Pushing Artisanal Fishers Into IUU Fishing in Ghana by Abdullah Afedzi March 27, 2023 Ghana
The Impact of the Shrimp Estate: Sea Turtles No Longer Visit, Kebumen’s Seas Polluted by Shrimp Farms (bahasa Indonesia) by Abdus Somad February 26, 2026 Indonesia
In the Alaskan Fishing Village Already Vanishing Due to Climate Crisis by Michael Downey and Siobhan Kennedy December 22, 2023 United States

FOCUS TOPIC | other recent climate and the environment reporting from the U.S.

Story Publication Date Region
Climate Change by Any Other Name by Tessa Nyhan May 2, 2025 United States
Climate Change Is Coming for Florida’s Real Estate. Why Don’t Prices Reflect It? by Alex Harris May 6, 2025 United States
The Unseen Flooding Risk in South Florida: Rising Water Beneath Our Feet by Alex Harris June 11, 2025 United States
On the Wings of Change: Rising Seas Threaten Ducks and Duck Hunting Down East by Alyssa Klim May 2, 2025 United States
Mangroves, Expanding With the Warming Climate, Are Re-Shaping the Texas Coast by Emily Foxhall May 6, 2024 United States
Saving Eelgrass, the Most Important Plant You’ve Likely Never Heard Of by Barbara Moran and Duy Linh Tu January 16, 2025 United States
What Has and Hasn’t Happened in the Year Since San Diego’s Devastating Floods by Claudia Boyd-Barrett and Lauren DeLaunay Miller January 22, 2025 United States
Why Portland’s Approach to Stormwater Management Matters by Andrew Balaban December 24, 2024 United States
Hawaiian Knowledge and Western Science: A Recipe for Reef Recovery? by Paula Dobbyn December 31, 2024 United States
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