Jill Langlois
Stories
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Health
With a million cases of dengue so far this year, Brazil is in a state of emergency
Brazil looks to short-term and long-term strategies to fight a disease so painful it's known as "breakbone fever." The outbreak is part of a global wave of dengue triggered in part by climate change.
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Health
Sexual violence is an ancient and often unseen war crime. Is it inevitable?
"Conflict-related sexual violence" is as old as the Bible and as topical as current wars around the world. We talk to three experts about why it persists, why it's underreported and how to stop it.
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Health
The pandemic sent hunger soaring in Brazil. They're fighting back with school lunches.
Free school lunches, a pillar of Brazil's anti-poverty efforts, are now one of its main weapons against surging post-pandemic hunger. And that's not the only benefit.
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Health
This Brazilian activist stared down mining giants to protect the rainforest she loves
Champion of her ancestral forest, Brazilian Indigenous activist Alessandra Korap Munduruku was one of this year's recipients of the Goldman Environmental Prize for grassroots activists.
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Environment
Is there mercury in the fish we eat? Amazonians tap WhatsApp to find out
A community of Indigenous peoples worried that mercury used by gold miners was contaminating the fish they eat. So they created a DIY team to find out more.