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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Nina Dietz
Nina Dietz is a writer, documentarian, and journalist reporting from a background rooted in both science and the humanities. Her work has appeared in New Lines magazine, Inside Climate News, Science...
May 27, 2025
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Max Graham
Max Graham is a freelance journalist based in Alaska, where he reports on mining, oil, commercial fishing, and other environmental issues. Formerly a food and agriculture fellow at Grist, he has...
May 23, 2025
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Rachel Feltman
Rachel Feltman is former executive editor of Popular Science and forever host of the podcast The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week. She previously founded the blog Speaking of Science for the...
May 20, 2025
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Menaka Raman-Wilms
Menaka Raman-Wilms is the host of The Decibel, The Globe and Mail’s daily news podcast. Previously, she was a reporter in the Ottawa bureau. Before joining The Globe, Menaka was an associate producer...
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Lily Zhang
Lily Zhang is a second-year master of environmental management student at the Duke University Marine Lab. Her work centers on community-based marine conservation and explores human-ocean connections...
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Lue Palmer
Climate and environmental journalist Lue Palmer (they/them) was born in rural Canada, is based in New Orleans, and has roots in Jamaica. Palmer was at the forefront of reporting on Louisiana's first...
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Alexa York
Alexa York is a journalist and investigative reporter at The Blade in Toledo, Ohio. A native of Luckey, Ohio, she was a Fulbright grantee in Bitterfeld, Germany, one of the most polluted cities in the...
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Simone Fant
Simone Fant is an Italian multimedia journalist covering climate, the environment, and the circular economy. His work includes in-depth analysis and investigative reporting, with a focus on plastic...
April 24, 2025
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Hans Wetzels
Hans Wetzels is a freelance investigative journalist based in Brussels and the Netherlands. He previously lived and worked in Berlin. He has reported from countries such as Kenya, Rwanda, Ukraine, and...
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Glen Gawarkiewicz
Glen Gawarkiewicz is an associate scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. His primary areas of research are coastal oceanography, particularly frontal dynamics, observations, and...
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Bill Amaru
Bill Amaru, a seasoned commercial fisherman from New England, has spent over 50 years navigating the waters of the Atlantic. His story is featured in the Pulitzer Center-supported documentary Troubled...
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Hilary Beaumont
Hilary Beaumont is an investigative journalist covering the climate crisis and intersecting issues. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Rolling Stone, VICE News, The New Republic...
April 2, 2025