Klas Lundstrom

Klas Lundström is a writer and investigative reporter who focuses on environmental issues, mining, and post-war societies. He is the author of numerous books, his most recent on Mongolia and U.S. uranium mining, ‘Dzud: Climate, Coal and Cold in Mongolia.’

Hi is a 2021 Pulitzer Center grantee (along with photographer Fredrik Lerneryd), with “Tajikistan: A Storm on the Roof of the World” — a reporting project about the climate crisis in the Pamir Mountains, in eastern Tajikistan.

Klas is a staff writer for the Swedish newspaper Tidningen Global (“Global Magazine”). As a freelancer, his work has appeared in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, New Internationalist, and elsewhere. He is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Landlocked

The world is addicted to soy — in Paraguay, these farmers pay the ultimate price

“I wanted to scream.”

By Klas Lundstrom and Fredrik Lerneryd
Landlocked

In Paraguay, cows offer a way out of poverty — and perhaps a greater peril

“Against nature, there’s nothing you can do.”

By Klas Lundstrom and Fredrik Lerneryd
Landlocked

Why yerba mate may be one of Paraguay’s greatest gifts — or its curse

“The soil is ready to let go.”

By Klas Lundstrom and Fredrik Lerneryd

“We’re waiting for another way of life.”

At the “Roof of the World,” solar power is a necessary evil.

By Klas Lundstrom and Fredrik Lerneryd

Living through Tajikistan’s climate apocalypse

By Klas Lundstrom and Fredrik Lerneryd

In Tajikistan, a deadly new type of climate crisis has already arrived

Part one in a three-part series: The climate crisis at the Roof of the World.

By Klas Lundstrom and Fredrik Lerneryd