A Brazilian teenager's winning letter in a Pulitzer Center contest has caught the attention of a federal official. Juliana ...

Image Promoted by the Pulitzer Center, the Stories from the Amazon Film Festival took place in the Brazilian states of ...

In northeast Nigeria, farmers pay for their survival. Twice a year, they hand over thousands of naira to boys barely old enough to be called men — foot soldiers of the Islamic State West ...

Image Yazmin Alvarez, left, and her daughter, Leyla Avelar, discuss Halloween costume ideas in their East Oakland, California, living room on October 9, 2024. Leyla’s first blood lead level test was ...

Johnny C. Y. Lam is a Canadian freelance photographer based in Newfoundland. His work appears regularly in The Globe and Mail and Maclean’s.

Nearly a quarter of a million people died in the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, the majority of deaths in Indonesia. Now, at least half of the 140,000 houses reconstructed in the ...

Muftau Ajao, a traditional doctor, soaks up with flickering flames as he prepares herbal medicine for patients. Image by Abdulwaheed Sofiullahi. Nigeria. Rural Nigerians face mounting challenges in ...

Image by Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat. United States, 2024. Kahaluʻu Bay on the Big Island has become a focal point for blending science, tourist education and cultural know-how. So far, hopeful signs ...

Lawyer Heather Shaner is well known within the Washington, D.C., legal community, and is the subject of the documentary Public Defender. The film follows Shaner as she represents two people who ...