The Rhineland region of Germany has more CO2 pollution than any part of Europe due to its many coal mines. That's why climate activists organized the largest protest against coal production that Germany has ever seen.
To find out why we are still using such harmful energy sources, VICE Germany spoke with coal workers, environmentalists, and residents about climate goals, power plant technology, and a future without coal. We see entire towns and vast forests that have been evacuated to mine coal. Watch as we search for the truth about Germany's energy policy.
This is the story of one of Britain's most notorious reformed criminals, Jason Coghlan, who spent 16 years behind bars before he found an even more dangerous and effective pastime: studying the law...
After discovering that his biological father could be any one of the desperadoes from a 1980s video-dating tape, 15-year-old Adam embarks on a suburban quest to find the man he can now call 'Dad'. ...
Bernard Noble is serving 13 and a third years in prison for having two joints in his pocket. Krishna Andavolu traces Noble’s story from his arrest to his incarceration.
In this episode of Streets by Vice we head to Las Vegas, Nevada and delve into life beyond The Strip by way of Charleston Boulevard, the city’s longest street running east to west.
In this episode of Streets by Vice, we explore Austin’s rich and rather strange cultural history through the lens of one of its most iconic thoroughfares: 6th street. Sixth is significant in many w...
With the legalization of same sex marriage, much of the country considers the fight for gay rights to be over. But outside of the LGBT- friendly coasts, many still find it difficult to escape or ev...
On this episode of VICE Talks Film, we meet Ben Wheatley, one of the UK’s most exciting living directors in the build up to the release of his adaptation of JG Ballard’s seminal dystopian novel “Hi...
The Rhineland region of Germany has more CO2 pollution than any part of Europe due to its many coal mines. That's why climate activists organized the largest protest against coal production that Ge...
Meet Eddie Huang. He went to law school, got hired, got fired, told jokes, sold weed, did molly, opened a restaurant, wrote a New York Times bestseller, and now he’s here, drinking burgundy in Burg...
The world is addicted to meat: in developing countries around the world, diets are starting to look more like ours, incorporating more and more beef and pork. Massive factory farms are springing up...
Things of worth are often neglected in favor of that which might be more immediately gratifying. Unfortunately, the things that are neglected are often lost forever, irreplaceable. This is the stor...
In a uniquely candid conversation with VICE Autobiographies, A$AP Ferg talks about his father and how their relationship catalyzed his growth as an artist. VICE follows Ferg to Harlem to watch him ...
Bernard Noble is serving 13 and a third years in prison for having two joints in his pocket. Krishna Andavolu traces Noble’s story from his arrest to his incarceration.
Driven by a need for freshest salmon, most grass-fed lamb, and legal weed, Action makes a pit-stop in the Pacific Northwest enroute to a concert in Vancouver.
Comedians Solomon Georgio, Eric Dadourian, and James Austin Johnson share a house called "Babe Island" in Los Angeles. They have a houseparty & stand-up comedy show in the garage with Clare O'Kane,...
Action is on the road touring to support his album, Mr. Wonderful. With stops in DC, Atlanta, and Miami, Action manages to eat in the hottest restaurant in the country, sample true southern BBQ, an...
The Pentecostal tent revival is as exciting as Christian church gets. It is still church, however. Thomas goes to a revival in Arkansas to see how the holy spirit stacks up against secular temptati...
Ellen and Ian are in Japan, on a journey which includes getting friendship-married at a Buddhist temple, working at a rent-a-friend agency and joining the party in the world's smallest gay bar.
Compton was made famous by NWA’s seminal album, Straight Outta Compton, which helped birth gangsta rap by documenting the volatile world of South Central Los Angeles in 1988. Now, the city is back ...
The next big thing in medical marijuana might be cancer therapy. But with little hard evidence, families whose children have life-threatening cancer are taking matters into their own hands, and get...
Filmmaker Lance Bangs explores the underground circuit of young comedians living together in group houses, then throws a houseparty and standup comedy show.
EP. 1 - MULTICULTURALISM AT ITS BEST: http://bit.ly/1TB3DbV F*ck, That's Delicious chronicles the life and eating habits of rap/s greatest bon vivant, Action Bronson. With the help of his friends a...
We investigate the future of love and sex in the digital age—including the evolution of the porn industry, "teledildonics," and the very real possibility of virtual romances.
For 45 years, America was locked in the Cold War with the Soviet Union and fear of global nuclear annihilation was constant. The end of the Cold War in 1991 was supposed to usher in a new era of pe...
Last year, the United States began withdrawing our combat troops from the longest war in our history: Afghanistan. But the war isn't ending just because we're leaving. This year, Afghan National Se...
The Middle East is fracturing. Arab uprisings and military interventions across the region have caused civil wars and spawned terrorist groups. Stuck in the middle of it all is Saudi Arabia. Confro...
Last year, the worst Ebola outbreak in human history swept through West Africa, killing more than 10,000 people in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea. The disease spread so quickly in part because t...
Virulent homophobia is on the rise in Uganda. In 2014, the Ugandan President signed into law the infamous "Anti-Homosexuality Bill," which in its original version went as far as mandating the death...
Genetically modified seeds have been planted around the world and hailed as a solution to global hunger—but these crops, called GMOs for "genetically modified organisms," have also sparked heated p...
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, countries in the Middle East have seen a surge in the looting of antiquities. In Egypt alone, an estimated $3 billion dollars worth of artifacts have been plund...
In 2011, the state of Alabama passed one of the harshest anti-immigrant laws in the history of the United States. Based on the hardline policy known as “self-deportation,” Alabama's HB-56 aimed to ...
We rely on antibiotics to treat everything from stomach bugs to skin rashes to bronchitis. In fact, we’ve been overusing them—and in doing so giving rise to new crop of dangerous bacterial infectio...
In the course of one week in last spring, more than 100 teenagers in Dallas overdosed on a drug called K2. In August, the governor of New Hampshire declared a state of emergency because of 44 overd...
Cocaine use in Europe has increased dramatically over the past decade and new routes have evolved to supply the demand. Ben Anderson follows the cocaine highway from the streets of Venezuela, to dr...
VICE Profiles is a weekly window into our eccentric and idiosyncratic world that covers everything from offensive college students to exotic animal ownership to gun licenses for the blind to child bullfighters. VICE Profiles airs Mondays on VICE.com.
Phil Tippett is the Oscar-winning stop-motion animator and designer behind some of the greatest fantasy creatures and sci-fi set pieces in cinema history. From his humble beginnings as an alien pat...
When a charismatic former alcoholic named Shaft had his life changed by Burning Man, he realized that he actually identifies as a unicorn. No longer able to face the monotony of work and life in th...
LARPing, or live-action roleplaying, is a game in which people create characters and act out storylines within fictional worlds, in real time, in costume. We go LARPing and meet Jon Gallagher, a LA...
Mr. Cherry is a Japanese man who holds 12 Guinness World Records for feats ranging from crab walking to crushing walnuts with his butt. VICE followed him in the run-up to his biggest record-breakin...
On this episode of VICE Profiles, we meet Melissa, the unlikely astronaut, to understand what motivates a person to relocate to another, unknown planet. Having never found a reason to move from Eng...
Watch Part 2 now on VICE: http://bit.ly/Gay-Conversion-P2 Conversion therapy is the practice of "curing" gay people by trying to turn them straight through counseling and lifestyle restrictions. Th...
In 2011, an international peacekeeping force pushed al Shabaab Islamists from Somalia's capital city. The fight continues in the countryside and in Mogadishu. The weakened extremists launch periodi...
It was just after she’d had her first child that Janet Bloomfield realized she didn’t want to go back to work and pay some nanny to raise her kids. She had gone to college to study film theory and ...
VICE heads to North Dakota fracking territory to meet the new generation of young and wealthy directional drillers who are taking part in the politically loaded and controversial method of obtainin...
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Catemaco in Veracruz, Mexico is known for two things: It's the place where Mel Gibson directed Apocalypto, and it is full of self-called witches that work either for God or the Devil. VICE doesn't ...
Our Vice Mexico team took us to La Esperanza. A little town in the nowadays violent state of Guerrero where indigenous people have the very lovely tradition of beating the shit out of each other in...
For this episode of Mexicali we visited the self named "Barrio Bravo" of Tepito in Mexico City. Tepito is one of the most iconic and dangerous neighborhoods in Mexico, we went there to watch a socc...
Mexico is a predominantly Catholic country; however, as official saints are revered throughout the country, so are some others that the Church does not accept. For example, Jesús Malverde is the pa...
Our Vice Mexico team went to the Sonora desert in search of the Bufo Alvarius, an endemic toad species that contains a very high dosage of 5-MEO-DMT in it´s body. 5-MEO-DMT is said to be the most p...
A group of Mexico City DJs known as "Under Style" has come together to create a new sound based on reggaeton and cumbia that they call Cumbiaton. Ignored by the affluent crowd, and often criticized...
Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, has become known as the "murder capital of the world" thanks to the seemingly endless string of drug-cartel-related killings and the law-abiding portion of the population is ...
Every November a celebration known as the Vigil of the Authentic Intrepid Searchers of Danger takes place in the city of Juchitán, Oaxaca, in Mexico. In this community of Zapotec indigenous people,...
It's Saturday morning in a Mexico City subway station, and the members of the Panamiur gang are headed to a party. Their leader, Cidel, is wearing huge sunglasses, a fauxhawk slathered in hair gel,...