Image Former Alcoa workers Lorry Ierace and Vince Puccio look out over the Pittsburgh firm's sprawling Willowdale mine in ...

Image Robert Adams (left), of Appalachian State University, and Andy Hill, the Watauga riverkeeper, prepare to search for ...

Sarah Lowery joined the Carolina Public Press, a nonprofit news organization, as audience director in March 2025. She ...

The Pulitzer Center is thrilled to announce 14 new grantees of the Impact Seed Fund (ISF). They were selected from 271 applications received this year. Launched in 2022, the ISF is a micro-scale grant ...

Independent journalist Michael Beltran has published articles on human rights, labor, migration, climate, and development ...

Adrian Cho. Adrian covers mainly physics, cosmology, and some scientific policy. He has been a staff writer at Science since 2005 and has been writing for a living since 1999, when he completed the ...

Jack Igelman is a freelance journalist with a master’s degree in economics. He specializes in stories about the people, places, and institutions working to protect and steward North Carolina’s ...

A Filipino journalist chronicles the challenging visa application process for Taiwan, a journey that underscores the even ...

Cupid Adumbireh clarifies that his comments quoted here are his own opinions, and don’t necessarily reflect the position of his ...

From left to right, construction worker Rohit Kumar Paswan, boiler plant worker Bhim Singh, and tailor Kajalben all face extreme heat at work. From the story “Killer Heat’s Shadow: India’s Labourers ...

India: The Toxic Price of Leather. "The bubbles which you see are contaminated with chromium, and it is very poisonous." Standing next to a field of wilted crops near his small village of Payundee, ...

The Milk Strikes of 1933 Were the Worst Year for Wisconsin Dairy Farms, and Culminated in a Farmer's Death. Gunder Felland had finished work for the day on his dairy farm outside Madison. It was Oct.