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Puerto Rico Investigations

We surveyed 112 Puerto Rican funeral homes to check the accuracy of the hurricane death toll. This is what we found.
By John D. Sutter, Leyla Santiago and Khushbu Shah, CNN Video by McKenna Ewen and John D. Sutter, CNN
La Ruta De María: A journey along the path of the hurricane
Motel misery: Hundreds fled Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico only to end up functionally homeless in Florida
'Exodus' from Puerto Rico: A visual guide
'We are the forgotten people': It's been almost six months since Hurricane Maria, and Puerto Ricans are still dying
Puerto Rico orders review of deaths after hurricane

Change the List

The rapist next door
John D. Sutter, CNN
Alaska's rape rate is the highest in the country -- three times the national average. To find out why, I went to Alaska to talk with victims, politicians -- and the rapists.
The poor kids of Silicon Valley
It's your turn to be a CNN boss
My 417-mile trip down 'Apocalypse River'
The most unequal place in America
The county where no one's gay
Most trafficked mammal you've never heard of

Vanishing: Earth's extinction crisis

When the coral disappears, so will they
Story by John D. Sutter, CNN Video by Matt Gannon and John D. Sutter, CNN
It's 2 a.m. when the half-moon wakes Hary. He senses its gravitational pull -- feels the moon coaxing fish out of a nearby reef and into his fishing nets here at the edge of Africa.
Listening for the amphibian apocalypse
The old man and the bee
The era of 'biological annihilation'
These groups are stopping the sixth extinction -- and they need your help
Imagine a world without giraffes
How to stop the sixth mass extinction

Two Degrees

You're making this island disappear
It's one of the clearest injustices of climate change: The Marshall Islands likely won't exist if we warm the planet 2 degrees. I traveled to the remote Pacific to learn what it's like to try to process that doomsday forecast. And why some people already are making the painful decision to leave. You voted for this coverage as part of CNN's two° series.
What killed Stacy Ruffin?
Tragedy of a village built on ice
The county of climate skeptics
The town that stood up to coal
Denmark's 'fairy tale' energy island
15 facts about sea level rise that should scare the s^*# out of you
Packing up because of climate change
There's a cheap, proven fix to the world's biggest problem
Why beef is the new SUV
'There's no more land'

Slavery's Last Stronghold

Slavery's last stronghold
John D. Sutter, CNN
Mauritania's endless sea of sand dunes hides an open secret: An estimated 10% to 20% of the population lives in slavery. But as one woman's journey shows, the first step toward freedom is realizing you're enslaved.
When freedom is 4,000 miles away
Slave master becomes an abolitionist
US Ambassador on slavery in Mauritania: 'Unacceptable and abhorrent'
Institute founded in response to CNN reporting
'It's unbelievable': Turning point for slavery's last stronghold
Report: Mauritania is no longer the world's slavery capital

About

John D. Sutter is an award-winning reporter in CNN's investigative unit, where he focuses primarily on climate change, social justice issues and crowdsourced reporting projects.
He was the creator of the network's "2 degrees" project, which aimed to involve readers in climate change coverage. He led the award-winning CNN Digital series, "Vanishing," which focused on the global extinction crisis. That series was nominated for an EMMY Award and won Editor & Publisher's EPPY Award for best online investigative/enterprise feature story. And he spearheaded CNN's "Change the List" project, which asked the network's digital audience commission story topics in online polls; and involved them in pushing for change.
In 2015, a portfolio of Sutter's work for CNN Digital won the Batten Medal for public service journalism from the American Society of News Editors. His 2012 online documentary on modern slavery in Mauritania won the prestigious Livingston Award for Young Journalists, an award he shared with videographer Edythe McNamee. Sutter's work has been honored by the Online News Association, Investigative Reporters and Editors and the Foreign Press Association, among others. In 2014, he won the Al Neuharth Award for innovation in investigative reporting for an online series on LGBT life in Mississippi. In 2011, he was part of a team that won a Peabody Award for coverage of the Gulf oil spill.
Sutter joined CNN in 2009. Previously, he was a staff writer at The Oklahoman. He earned a bachelor's degree in international studies and journalism from Emory University in 2005.
Email him at john.sutter@cnn.com.