Brazil has a nationwide program that lets prisoners cut their sentences by reading books and proving they understood them.

Sugarcane fields undulate across the landscape as a line of water stretches to the horizon. We travel along a dirt road in western São Paulo, on the banks of the Paraná River — the watery border ...

In Brazil, inmates like Emily de Souza participate in a reading program that allows them to reduce their sentences. The ...

The Chief Executive Officer of the World Carnival Commission (WCC), Pax Nindi, has described carnival as one of the biggest ...

Nina Notman meets the scientists developing recombinant antivenoms and small molecule inhibitors to save the lives and limbs of snakebite patients, who number in the their hundreds of thousands ...