Environment
Around the world, the environment is increasingly under threat from industrial pollution, business development of the wilderness and climate change. Pulitzer Center stories tagged with “Environment” feature reporting that covers climate change, deforestation, biodiversity, pollution, and other factors that impact the health of the world around us. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on the environment.
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Project
The Black Death of Kabwe
Years of unmitigated contamination from Zambia's largest lead mine have created a toxic nightmare...
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Pulitzer Center Update
How to Feed a 'Hot, Hungry Planet'
Grantee Lisa Palmer launches her new book "Hot, Hungry Planet" at the Woodrow Wilson Center with a...
May 26, 2017 -
Pulitzer Center Update
Brazilian Journalists Invited to Apply for 4-Day "Reporting Land Rights" Course
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Thomson Reuters Foundation announce a special...
May 23, 2017 -
Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Beth Gardiner
After years of ignoring the deadly problem, China's leaders are finally starting to take air...
![The cover of Lisa Palmer's new book "Hot, Hungry Planet: The Fight to Stop a Global Food Crisis in the Face of Climate Change." Published by St. Martin's Press.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/05-26-17/hhp-book-cover-3-1038x576.jpg.webp?h=1f55d2fb&itok=XyI4dvAC "The cover of Lisa Palmer's new book "Hot, Hungry Planet: The Fight to Stop a Global Food Crisis in the Face of Climate Change." Published by St. Martin's Press.")
![The county seat of Beichuan, in China's Sichuan province, was the worst hit area by the 7.9 magnitude earthquake that struck on May 12, 2008. The quake, the strongest in China since 1950, left nearly 90,000 people dead or missing in the region, and an estimated 10 million were without shelter. In Beichuan alone, about half of the residents died. Thousands of these casualties were children, with locals blaming faulty construction in school buildings, which became known as "tofu-dreg schoolhouses." Image by…](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/05-16-17/beichuan_blog_-1.jpg.webp?h=c6980913&itok=9zCRl5Yx "The county seat of Beichuan, in China's Sichuan province, was the worst hit area by the 7.9 magnitude earthquake that struck on May 12, 2008. The quake, the strongest in China since 1950, left nearly 90,000 people dead or missing in the region, and an estimated 10 million were without shelter. In Beichuan alone, about half of the residents died. Thousands of these casualties were children, with locals blaming faulty construction in school buildings, which became known as "tofu-dreg schoolhouses." Image by Sim Chi Yin/VII Photo Agency. China, 2015.")
