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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PART OF: Land Under Water: Living With the Effects of Climate Change in BangladeshSeptember 27, 2016
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While the developed world continues to deliberate climate change, the seas have already found their...
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Lesson Plans
Jewell: Climate Change, Archaeology and the Arctic: Using details to write persuasive letters
Students explore how climate change is affecting the work of archaeologists in the arctic using Eli Kintisch's project "Thawing Arctic Soils: A Tenuous Present and Dangerous Future.”
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This lesson asks students to compare the water crisis facing Flint, Michigan to a water crisis in China. Students use digital resources and practice cooperative learning and writing skills.
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This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 Guernica with current day issues presented from The Pulitzer Center.
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Lesson Plans
Climate Migration Resources
Teach students about the factors affecting climate migration.
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Lesson Plans
TPP's provisions on labor laws and human rights
Discuss the potential ramifications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement on labor rights.
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Lesson Plans
Exploring Downstream: Water Resources
Through this webquest, students use several different projects on the "Downstream" web portal to examine the impact of water resources on a wide range of communities around the world.
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Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: Through a Changing Climate
A 1,125-mile trek up Canada’s Mackenzie River, grantee Jason Motlagh explores the Darien Gap, and...
September 20, 2016
![Saline Drinking Water Khulna](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/09-23-16/12.jpg.webp?h=5482203a&itok=jP7QB3La "Kukumoni Munda, a resident of Koyra number 6, a coastal hamlet bordering the Sundarbans in southwestern Bangladesh, walks more than half a mile each day to fetch saline drinking water from a pond. "Fresh water costs 10 taka a day. I cannot afford it," she says. Image by Nikita Sampath. Bangladesh, 2016.")
