The Swedish Town Being Swallowed by the Earth
A huge crack in the ground—caused by iron ore mining—working its way towards Kiruna, Sweden. Photos by Klaus Thymann The problem with aggressively mining a single specific site for over a century is...
View ArticleThe Inconceivable Atomic Legacy of New Mexico
The Trinity site, New Mexico (photo via) In 1945, the world's first nuclear weapon was detonated at the Trinity site in the Chihuahuan Desert in New Mexico. The massive blast pulled the white desert...
View ArticleA World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Is Leading the Opposition Party in Ukraine
A World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Is Leading the Opposition Party in Ukraine
View ArticleIf You Get a Letter About Illegal Downloading, Maybe You Should Ignore It
Voltage says there's only way to take part in the McConaissance. Screencap via. On Friday, news broke that Canada’s federal court came to a decision regarding a demand from Voltage Pictures, a...
View ArticleJoaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Captured in Mexico: What You Need to Know
Photo: Bloomberg via Getty Images. This story is from VICE News, our new news website. See more and sign up now at vicenews.com. “I’m a farmer.” These were the words used by Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán...
View ArticleWhile Kiev Was Burning, Odessa Went Swimming
Photos by Kristina Podobed On January 19, Ukraine's Orthodox Christians celebrated the ancient holiday of Epiphany the same way they always do: by going down to the Black Sea for a mass winter swim....
View ArticleManitoba Hydro Really Wants New Dams
Red River ice jam, in 2009. Screencap via. As the coldest winter in Manitoba’s recent history grinds interminably onward, Manitoba Hydro, the province’s publicly owned energy provider, has been raking...
View ArticleMossless in America: Eva O'Leary and Harry Griffin
Mossless in America is a column featuring interviews with documentary photographers. The series is produced in partnership with Mossless magazine, an experimental photography publication run by Romke...
View ArticleVICE News: Fighting Season in Kandahar - Part 1
Springtime starts with a bang in Afghanistan, as it marks the start of the fighting season between the Taliban and Afghan security forces. For the first time in 12 years, the Afghan National Army...
View ArticleThe Greatest American Copywriter Wasn’t a 'Mad Man'
Most of you have never heard of him. He never threatened to jump out of an office window when a client wouldn’t buy his ad, like George Lois, or famously suggested the headline "From those wonderful...
View ArticleShit Harper Did Protested Canadian Poverty with a Wall of Canned Goods
Sean Devlin, with the the 300 cans of donated food from the SHD community. Photos via Vanessa Lorraine-Phillips. On February 12, at 7:40 AM, a group of six young activists representing Shit Harper Did...
View ArticleBugs Are Nutritious, So We Should Eat Them All
Bugs on a stick via When I was in kindergarten I had one enemy. His name was Travis, and he was disgusting. Every day at recess, Travis would poke around in our schoolyard's leaves, branches, and...
View ArticleI'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: 'I Am Tom Moody'
Fear is the worst, and I’ve got loads of it. I’ve got an inordinate fear of yoga—actually, I have a fear of being terrible at yoga. I can’t touch my toes, and I fart when I try. Plus I think about all...
View ArticleWhat Is Bruce Gilden Doing?
Photo by Bruce Gilden/Magnum Photos What is Bruce Gilden doing? The short answer is, I don’t know. I see Bruce every day. I talk to him about his work, about the evolving photography industry,...
View ArticleEco-Anarchists in France Rioted Against a Hated Airport Project
Photos by the author, Alexandre Hervaud, and Saber Jendoubi On Saturday afternoon, my hometown was set on fire as a small group of ultra-left activists turned a demonstration against the construction...
View ArticleBad Cop Blotter: Shot by the Police for Holding a Gun-Like Object
Photo via Flickr user Andrew Mason On Valentine’s Day, two police officers in Euharlee, Georgia, showed up at the home of 17-year-old Christopher Roupe to serve a probation violation warrant on his...
View ArticleThe NSA Has Set Up Shop at the US Embassy in Mexico
Photo courtesy of the US State Deptarment. This story is from VICE News, our new news website. See more and sign up now at vicenews.com. When Edward Snowden's leaks revealed what the NSA had been up...
View ArticleSothern Exposure: Places No One Would Want to Settle
Photos by Scot Sothern It’s 1973 and I’m somewhere in North Florida or maybe South Georgia, behind the wheel and stuck in the moment. A dirt road ambles along throwing up dust and settling in places...
View ArticleFacebook Is Bringing MOOCs (and Facebook) to Rwanda
Facebook Is Bringing MOOCs (and Facebook) to Rwanda
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