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This letter features reporting from “Death of the Pollinators: Beehive Cemetery Points To Environmental Threat in Belterra (Portuguese)” by Mara Régia Di Perna and Elizabeth Oliveira Dear Congressman Will Hurd, Belterra, a municipality located in the Lower Amazon Mesoregion of South America, is

This letter features reporting from "In California’s Fertile Valley, Industry and Agriculture Hang Heavy in the Air" by Brendan Borrell and Larry C. Price Dear Senator Marco Rubio, My name is Prajit, and I am a fifth grader at Stowers Elementary, Florida. I am writing this letter to inform you about

This letter features reporting from “COVID-19 Data on Native Americans Is ‘a National Disgrace.’ This Scientist Is Fighting To Be Counted” by Lizzie Wade Dear Congresswoman Mikie Sherill, The United States government has shown grand ineptitude in response to the COVID-19 virus outbreak. Its

This letter features reporting from "COVID-19 Data on Native Americans Is ‘a National Disgrace.' This Scientist Is Fighting To Be Counted" by Lizzie Wade Congressman McAdams, My name is Dani Cohen and I am a student here in Salt Lake City. I am writing to you in regards to my concern about the

This letter features reporting from "Intersex, and Proud" by Robert Tokanel and Yuhong Pang Dear Mayor Lightfoot, My name is Mateo Curiel. I am a high school junior studying global issues and how they pertain locally. Discrimination within the LGBTQIA+ community, in particular, is incredibly

This letter features reporting from “Why Every State Should Adopt a Mask Mandate, in 4 Charts” by Lois Parshley and Youyou Zhou Dear Representative Yamashita, Hello! My name is Kaitlin Kitagawa and I am a sophomore at King Kekaulike High School. I would like to talk to you about the issues regarding

This letter features reporting from "COVID-19 Is a ‘Crisis Within a Crisis’ for Homeless People" by Molly Bohannon, Katie Surma, Austin Fast, Nino Abdaladze, Megan Lupo, Jamie Fields, and Sanjana Garg Dear Attorney General Letitia James, My name is Zalachi Robinson. I am an eighth-grade student from

This letter features reporting from “How Can We Save Black and Brown Lives During A Pandemic? Data From Past Studies Can Point the Way” by Ann Gibbons Dear Senator Duckworth, My name is Caleb Villegas and I’m a sixth grade student at Mitchell Elementary in Chicago. I’m writing to you about an

This letter features reporting from “The Deadly Side of America’s Banana Obsession” by Madison Stewart Dear Commissioner Sid Miller, The heavy use of pesticides on produce is one of the major global problems that we face today. More than half of all the produce people consume have pesticides in them

This letter features reporting from "José Gregorio: Either We Preserve the Amazon Rainforest, or the Planet Will Take Revenge" by Pablo Albarenga and Francesc Badia i Dalmases Dear Congresswoman Sherill, 7 years, 103 days, 15 hours, 40 minutes, and 7 seconds. This clock, showcased high and mighty in

This letter features reporting from “Built to Last” by Megha Rajagopalan, Alison Killing, and Christo Buschek Dear Senator Rubio, As you well know, China has been constructing scores of massive new prison and internment camps in the past three years. Within them, Muslim minorities. These purpose

This letter features reporting from “The Great Climate Migration” by Abrahm Lustgarten and Meridith Kohut Dear Representative Jones, Congratulations on winning the election! My name is Alexa Troob, and I am a freshman at Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York. While I am too young to vote

This letter features reporting from "How China’s High-Tech ‘Eyes’ Monitor Behavior and Dissent" by Nick Schifrin and Dan Sagalyn Dear Congresswoman Norton, According to the World Economic Forum, analysts project that we will create 463 exabytes, or over 200 million DVDs of digital data daily by 2025

This letter features reporting from “Jailing the Mentally Ill” by John Yang and Frank Carlson Dear Mayor Bill de Blasio, Perhaps it’s only in the long run, if at all, that we recognize the impact of a teacher cold-calling us in class, a parent making us lunch for school every day, a friend stating

This letter features reporting from “What They Saw: Ex-Prisoners Detail the Horrors of China's Detention Camps” by Alison Killing and Megha Rajagopalan Dear Senator Klobuchar, I’m Mia Wolfe. I am a sixth grade student at Heilicher Minneapolis Jewish Day School in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am writing

The Rainforest Investigations Network ( RIN) seeks to harness investigative reporting and cross-border collaboration to tackle stories at the intersection of climate change, corruption, and governance in the world’s three main tropical rainforest regions: Amazon, Congo Basin, and Southeast Asia

The world is full of stories, both far afield and in your own backyard. What stories tend to go under-reported, and how can we seek them out? What tools does a journalist use to find and tell stories that engage and inform audiences, while uplifting issues that don't often make headlines? This

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