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Organized Crime and Corruption in Juarez, Mexico
Louie Palu, for the Pulitzer Center A view of Ciudad Juarez and the state of Chihuahua: This slideshow features outlying areas of the city including Ascension, the desert to the west, the Juarez Valley to the eas...
Global Water Crisis: From Haiti to the Himalayan Glaciers
William Wheeler In the Nepalese Himalayas in 2009, I trekked into the Langtang Valley, just short of the Tibetan border, and to a village of empty plywood cabins. The arrival of the summer monsoon season had chas...
‘Climate Change on the Tibetan Plateau’
Sean Gallagher Click here to view the slideshow as featured on CNN.com. Story by Brett Roegiers, CNN The majority of glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau in central Asia are shrinking rapidly, according to a comprehen...
Fast Food Fuels Obesity in Dubai
Andrew Faust, for the Pulitzer Center Since the early 1990s, Dubai’s population has grown by more than 200 percent. The emirate's rapid expansion, its fast-paced lifestyle and its embrace of Western consumer ha...
Meltdown: Climate Change and Environmental Degradation on the Tibetan Plateau
The Tibetan Plateau covers approximately 25 percent of China’s surface area, spreading out over 2.5 million sq. km in the west of the country. It is home to the largest store of freshwater outside of the North and South Poles, feeding...
Tide of Syrian Refugees Swells
Stephen Franklin The border was less than an hour’s walk from their villages, but they slowly crawled for two days in the broiling heat across the steep mountains. They said they feared for their lives all the ...
Changing Waters: Cholera Permeates Life in Haiti
In the summer of 2012, nearly two years after the outbreak of cholera in Haiti, the devastating illness remains a pervasive threat. When the disease first surged in October 2010, the bacteria affected not only waterways but also the da...
China’s Left Behind Children
DEBORAH JIAN LEE, SUSHMA SUBRAMANIANWhen Huang Dongyan visited home to celebrate the Lunar New Year in 2011, her son refused to call her "Mom." Huang, 38, tried coaxing him with baby talk and tickles. But five-year-old Zhang Yi ignored her and buried h...
Kenya Poor Cling to Dump Site
Micah AlbertAs dawn neared and the light grew, the scene at a municipal dump outside Nairobi, Kenya, was hard to imagine. Otherworldly sunlight filtered through biogas steam and smoke from burning chemicals and plastic. The smell of rotting debris from...
Pollution Threatens South America’s Lake Titicaca
Sara ShahriariLake Titicaca glows like a sapphire amidst the subtle shades of brown on the high Andean planes. It sits on the border of Peru and Bolivia, and the Inca considered the 3,200-square-mile lake the birthplace of mankind. The waters continue ...
