Photojournalist Sean Gallagher discusses his recent work photographing on the Tibetan Plateau. He shares his thoughts in how he conceptualised his project, its evolution and how he executed it whilst in the field, discussing some of the challenges he faced. His final project, titled ‘Meltdown: Climate Change and Environmental Degradation on the Tibetan Plateau’, looks at issues such as melting glaciers, grassland degradation, desertification, mining and the disappearance of Tibetan culture.

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Which of these malaria medicines is real and which one is fake? Read more» “David Nahamya, Chief drug inspector for the Uganda National Drug Authority, shows how close fake malaria drugs mirror the real thing. The medication on the left is authentic; the right, fakes that may contain little or no active ingredients,” Pulitzer Center grantee Kathleen McLaughlin writes. “Porous borders in Africa coupled with indifferent oversight in China are combining to turn the continent and its pressing health problems into a free-for-all for maverick manufacturers, some of whom are producing pills with no active ingredients at all.” Image by Kathleen E. McLaughlin. Uganda, 2012.
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“David Nahamya, Chief drug inspector for the Uganda National Drug Authority, shows how close fake malaria drugs mirror the real thing. The medication on the left is authentic; the right, fakes that may contain little or no active ingredients,” Pulitzer Center grantee Kathleen McLaughlin writes. “Porous borders in Africa coupled with indifferent oversight in China are combining to turn the continent and its pressing health problems into a free-for-all for maverick manufacturers, some of whom are producing pills with no active ingredients at all.” Image by Kathleen E. McLaughlin. Uganda, 2012.

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After a century of growth, the U.S. paper industry is suffering due to a switch by consumers to devices like tablets and e-readers. It also faces another threat: China. In the last decade China has tripled its production and overtaken the U.S. as the world’s biggest papermaker. Watch the video to hear from Chinese and U.S. paper workers talk about innovation, sustainability and price fixing.

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“But as analog and offline as paper might be, it doesn’t lack for high stakes. The globalization of the pulp and paper industry, a phenomenon of the past decade, has heightened U.S.-China trade frictions, infuriated environmentalists and cast America’s global competitiveness and innovation in a new light.”

- Pulitzer Center grantee John Schmid in an Untold Story for the Pulitzer Center, as part of a larger series on Wisconsin and China’s paper industry in collaboration with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 

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