Greenhouse gas emissions are pouring out at unprecedented levels, and the numbers are still rising. But with climate skeptics (and their allies in industry and government) thwarting conservationists’ efforts, some scientists are working to develop a back-up plan: using technology to “geoengineer” the Earth's atmosphere and reduce the impacts of climate change.
But geoengineering is seen by some as a distraction from the real challenge of climate change in much of the scientific community. Critics say it's a solution that diverts attention away from the real challenge, which is finding a way for the world to drastically reduce the amount of man-made carbon that its pumping into the atmosphere.
Shane Smith and Ben Anderson took an in-depth look at how this technology would work — and how effective this radical (and potentially dangerous) plan could be.
The fight for the future of Syria has turned the nation into a chessboard for competing world powers. But for civilians in the former ISIS capital city Raqqa, the ghosts of the past make the future...
DAMASCUS, SYRIA — Just outside Damascus, foreign reporters on a press tour gathered around a handful of generals from not just the Syrian Arab Army, but the Russian military, too.
Hong Kong is going to the polls Sunday after weeks of increasingly violent protests that have seen police firing live rounds, a man set on fire by demonstrators, and days-long police sieges on hard...
Parents gathered outside the university to beg police to let their kids go, while one protest leader called on the international community to prevent "Tiananmen 2019."
Sri Lankans are voting for a new president on Saturday, and in the wake of the worst terror attack of the year, one of their top priorities is national security. That’s propelled an alleged war-cri...
As Sikhs around the world celebrate a holiday that’s like their Christmas; the 550th birthday of Guru Nanak, their religion’s founder, they’re also celebrating something surprising — a rare moment ...
The next Industrial Revolution is upon us, and scientists, entrepreneurs, and policymakers are warning of an imminent paradigm shift in the future of work. In partnership with the Council on Foreig...
China’s Uighur minority live a dystopian nightmare of constant surveillance and brutal policing. At least one million of them are believed to be living in what the U.N. described as a “massive inte...
Thousands of foreigners answered ISIS’s call to fight in Syria and Iraq, traveling from countries around the world...including the United States. VICE News follows the journey of an American father...
On the very first VICE News Reports on VICELAND, we bring you an inside look at how Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s henchmen did his bidding, what led to his downfall, and why he was ultimately killed in Id...
The imageboard 8chan is now known as the website where mass killers in New Zealand and El Paso shared their racist ideologies, but it didn't start that way. It began as a haven for free speech — or...
EL PASO, Texas — Texas Rep. Veronica Escobar often takes fellow Congress members on tours of the border, trying to convince them that El Paso is a "magical place" because it's connected to Mexico, ...
The circle of students sat quietly, scribbling down answers to the prompt they’d just been given: “Write down three similarities between the Holocaust and abortion.”
With wild names like “Rhino 69,” “Black Mamba,” and “Mojo Nights,” so-called “natural” sexual enhancement supplements are a fixture behind the counters of bodegas, gas stations, corner stores, and ...
Florida ranks 44th in the country for access to mental health care. And one of the quickest and easiest ways to get it is by invoking a 1971 law called the Baker Act. It allows for anyone threateni...
On the afternoon of March 15, as Muslims gathered for Friday prayers, a gunman entered into the Masjid Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, and shot at anyone in his path before driving to ...
“If you survived the mines, you’d get killed by a sniper,” said Khaled Ahyaf, a Doctor at a child malnutrition clinic in Eastern Yemen, barely a mile from an active frontline, explaining why he can...
Fecal transplants have the power to revolutionize medicine, but hospitals need raw materials. At Open Biome, the country’s first independent stool bank right outside Boston, donors earn $40 for eac...
Hong Kong is going to the polls Sunday after weeks of increasingly violent protests that have seen police firing live rounds, a man set on fire by demonstrators, and days-long police sieges on hard...
Parents gathered outside the university to beg police to let their kids go, while one protest leader called on the international community to prevent "Tiananmen 2019."
The Hong Kong government’s ban on face masks at demonstrations got a defiant response Friday, with thousands of masked protesters turning out to show their opposition to the new law.
Lam Wing-kee, a bookseller who specialized in selling books that were banned by the Chinese government, would have been a target of the extradition bill that sparked months of protests in Hong Kong...
Hong Kong’s chief executive has formally withdrawn the bill that would have allowed its prisoners to be extradited to mainland China. But a Hong Konger who travels to the country can still be subje...
Things took a turn for the worse in Hong Kong this weekend. Police took unprecedented action on protestors, using water cannons to disperse crowds and later shooting their first live round since pr...
Dozens of Hongkongers rallying against police violence were arrested on rioting charges, a week after law enforcement failed to protect protesters who were assaulted in a subway station by a group ...
Overwhelmingly, Hong Kongers remain angry and worried over Beijing’s encroaching grip on their semi-autonomous state, but they’ve acquired another foe along the way: The city’s police force.
China’s Ministry of National Defense reminded Hong Kong residents Wednesday that the People’s Liberation Army could mobilize to “maintain social order” at the request of the island's government.
Hong Kong authorities declared their ransacked halls of government “a big crime scene” Tuesday, as they began the process of investigating and repairing the damage caused by Monday’s protests. But ...