Untold Stories
Reports from the field - an exclusive channel of Pulitzer Center reporting
Although apartheid has ended, its legacy lives on. Many South Africans still make their home in townships, segregated areas where they relocated after being forcibly removed from "white only" land.
Boasting of new technology that would prevent another Chernobyl, Russia wants to double its domestic nuclear energy output and triple the sales of its reactors worldwide.
For conservation efforts in the Amazon to be successful, the people of the forests must be included. Mapping these people and their resources is the first step to doing this.
From 600,000 cars in 1980 to 6.8 million today, Bangkok is seeing an increase in traffic—as well as a rise in asthma and other heath hazards.
The story of Elisangela, a single mother with two chronically ill children, reveals what is right and wrong with Brazil's free public healthcare system.
James Whitlow Delano travels to Bensdorp, a boomtown in Suriname, home to the indigenous Nduku, Brazilian prospectors and Chinese merchants. Gold is the preferred currency here.
Suriname and its pristine environment have become pawns in a new diplomatic Great Game in the Americas as power shifts from the United States toward China.
Nancy López sits down to talk with Daniel Alarcón about her experience as a producer at Radio Ambulante.
Hashim Yonis looks through the lens of one student and her teacher to consider the challenges of the educational system in Ethiopia.
Two years after the onset of cholera in Haiti, efforts to improve public health practices, such as hand-washing and drinking purified water, are paying off. Daily routines are changing—albeit slowly.
"Water poverty" is difficult to calculate and harder to conceptualize. After cholera erupted in Haiti, what does water poverty mean to Haitians in their daily life?
Partners in Health and others collaborated to provide thousands with a cholera vaccine – a little individual protection. Now, how do we keep the bacteria from reaching Haitians in the first place?
Yasmin Bendaas considers the perennial quest for beauty and good health in uncovering the meaning behind the traditional tattoos of Algerian women.