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
Smoke and Mirrors
Globally, cooking smoke causes over 4 million deaths per year. Can improved cookstoves save lives...
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Lesson Plans
What Happens to Communities When Industries Leave?
In this lesson, students create a timeline using multimedia reporting on the leather and textile industries in the U.S.. Students then design their own narrative timelines to explain a current event.
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Students explore a special issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on the use of nuclear power to address climate change, present articles to the class, and write persuasive letters.
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Pulitzer Center Update
Stanford University Reports on the Knight-Risser Prize for Western Environmental Journalism
Stanford University reports on this year's Knight-Risser Prize, won by grantee Ian James.
February 15, 2017 -
Project
Egypt's Deadly Infrastructure
Egypt’s infrastructure has real life costs for its citizens, and requires targeted and accountable...
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/02-21-17/floating_hospital_posterframe.jpg.webp?h=8dce6ec9&itok=8fXHTisB "A screenshot from the video "Aboard the Floating Hospital". Image by Nikita Sampath. Bangladesh, 2016.")
