Jamie Wiggan

2 weeks ago | publicsource.org | Jamie Wiggan |Quinn Glabicki

Photographs by Quinn Glabicki. This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. As Alcoa zeroes in on the bauxite beneath Australia’s endangered Northern Jarrah Forest, the Pittsburgh metals giant faces new resistance in a country that once wooed it through an advantageous political agreement.

2 weeks ago | boilingcold.com.au | Jamie Wiggan |Peter Milne

By Jamie Wiggan and Quinn Glabicki, PublicSourceThis story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Photographs by Quinn Glabicki. Collette Sheridan ran her fingers along the stone countertop, collecting a small heap of red particles in her palm. The skin from her wrist to her elbow was pinkish and splotchy — a condition, she said, that began with the dust that plagues the property.

2 weeks ago | technical.ly | Jamie Wiggan |Quinn Glabicki

This story by Jamie Wiggan and Quinn Glabicki was originally published by PublicSource, a news partner of Technical.ly. PublicSource is a nonprofit media organization delivering local journalism for the Pittsburgh region at publicsource.org. You can sign up for its newsletters at publicsource.org/newsletters. It took four Noongar men to hoist the warm, lifeless kangaroo onto the hooked limb from which they skinned and gutted their kill.

2 weeks ago | apps.publicsource.org | Quinn Glabicki |Jamie Wiggan

Western Australia's Kwinana is scarred, and Yarloop is divided. As red dust swirls and sludge lakes loom, Pinjarra residents wonder if the mining money is worth the sacrifices. Alcoa owns three sprawling refineries in Western Australia, where ore mined from the endangered jarrah forest is processed into alumina. The refineries produce hazardous emissions, which have led to lawsuits, worker complaints and home buyouts in the communities of Kwinana and Yarloop.

2 weeks ago | boilingcold.com.au | Jamie Wiggan |Peter Milne

By Jamie Wiggan and Quinn Glabicki, PublicSourceThis story was originally published by PublicSource, a nonprofit newsroom serving the Pittsburgh region where Alcoa has its headquarters. For more of its journalism, visit www.publicsource.org. This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Photographs by Quinn Glabicki. It took four Noongar men to hoist the warm, lifeless kangaroo onto the hooked limb from which they skinned and gutted their kill.