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  • South Africa’s Townships Are Worried About Soldiers, Not Coronavirus

    When South African president Cyril Rhamaphosa announced a three week lockdown on 23 March, he acknowledged that his country is particularly vulnerable to COVID-19. The virus, he said, is “extremely dangerous for a population like ours, with a large number of people with suppressed immunity because of HIV and TB, and high levels of poverty and malnutrition.” About a quarter of South Africans live in townships – in cramped, unsanitary conditions, rife with health problems. HIV is more prevalent than in the rest of the population, and in some communities, rates of TB are as high as 80 percent.

  • Why Grief Will Help Us Survive Coronavirus

    The world is now trying to make sense of a tragedy that makes no sense. A genome enveloped in protein has traveled across borders and oceans to tank economies, push millions out of work and school, and kill tens of thousands. When a loved one dies, we know to grieve. But it’s just as important to grieve a loss of normalcy, says Dr. Patrice A. Harris, a psychiatrist and the president of the American Medical Association. “Anxiety is something that’s talked a lot about, but I don’t think that grief is talked a lot.”

  • This Texas Town Had a Rattlesnake Roundup During a Pandemic

    Normally, Sweetwater, Texas is a tiny town of just under 11,000. But every second weekend in March, tens of thousands of people gather for the “World’s Largest Rattlesnake Roundup” (the “World’s Largest” is part of the name), a multi-day festival where you can pet a live rattlesnake, participate in snake-catching contests, watch the Miss Snake Charmer pageant, or just mill about the souvenir booths with your friends. There’s just one problem. The entire nation is experiencing a pandemic—and it’s not just hitting large cities like San Francisco and New York. On Friday, the Governor of Texas declared a state of emergency.

  • Tear Gas and Bullets Didn’t Dissuade Protesters in Iraq

    Iraq’s protesters have endured targeted attacks, abductions and killings. COVID-19 may force their movement off the streets.

  • What’s Really To Blame For Australia’s Bushfires

    NEW SOUTH WALES, Australia — The worst fire season in living memory has devastated all corners of Australia. The most ferocious of these burned for more than four months, scorching 72,000 square miles of land and destroying more than 9,000 buildings — including 3,500 homes. Thirty-four people died, and millions of wild animals were caught in the flames. For two decades, scientists have said that because Australia’s climate is heating up, the fire season would grow longer and more severe — but for Australian citizens, pinning the blame on climate change isn’t straight-forward.

  • This Is How Religion Is Adapting To COVID-19

    “It’s frankly not the government’s responsibility to provide spiritual leadership and care to people in this time,” Rev. Steve Paulikas told VICE News. “It’s our job. We’re figuring it out along with everyone else.”

  • See an Empty World Cleared by Coronavirus

    The coronavirus pandemic is shutting down the very things we need in a time of crisis. Even funerals.

  • Greek Islanders Want the Refugee Crisis Over — and the Migrants Gone

    Five years into Europe’s refugee crisis, the multi-billion Euro refugee deal with Turkey has broken down. Less than 2% of the refugees slated for resettlement in the rest of Europe have left Greece, as European nations refuse to implement the bloc’s continent-wide asylum policy. At the same time, almost no failed asylum claimants have been returned to Turkey, while the number of new arrivals have spiked, doubling in the past year. As a result, Greece has been left to cope with the crisis alone, with the bankrupt Southeast European nation transformed into the continent’s open-air prison camp. On the island of Samos, where 7000 migrants and refugees live in squalid conditions on the hillside overlooking a town of 7000 Greeks, locals are enraged. With the tourist economy devastated, islanders feel abandoned by both the Greek government in Athens and the European Union as a whole. The situation’s about to explode: and local islanders blame the mostly Northern European NGOs and journalists they accuse of exacerbating the migrant crisis, and ruining the image of their island overseas. VICE News travelled to Samos to meet the refugees, migrants and locals living in uncomfortable proximity as tensions mount, and local officials demand action from the capital. With tensions at boiling point, this once-idyllic island is the frontline of Greece and Europe’s migrant crisis.

  • Meghan Markle Escaping the Crown

    When Meghan Markle married Prince Harry she seemed to have it all. But less than two years after her fairy tale wedding, she’s walking away. How did it come to this?

  • This Is How Bee Stings Can Help Cure Lyme Disease

    For the past five years or so, people with chronic Lyme disease have been stinging themselves with bees. Ten bees. At a time. Three times a week. They leave the stingers in. For twenty minutes. Alzo Slade meets the people who do it

  • VICE VERSA Meghan Markle Escaping The Crown

    VICE Versa independent documentaries give voice to radical and unapologetic points of view. Immersive, provocative, and only on VICE, these stories tackle the broken systems and corrupt power structures of modern life head on. When Meghan Markle married Prince Harry she seemed to have it all. But less than two years after her fairy tale wedding, she’s walking away. How did it come to this?

  • Rat Park Documentary: Behind The Scenes

    Behind the scenes of the new Vice Canada feature documentary – Rat Park. Could the secret to solving the world’s drug crisis lie in a forgotten psychology experiment from the 1970s involving rats and heroin? RAT PARK examines the complex issues of drug laws and addiction, exploring why the problem may not be about the drugs themselves, but the environments we live in. Following three stories worlds apart, RAT PARK examines the impact of drug policy in the world’s war on drugs. A VICE Canada / Crave Original Documentary

  • Behind The Zero Line

    In 2016 VICE travelled to Zaitseva, Ukraine – a small, divided village trapped in the grey zone between the separatist (DNR) and Government front lines of Eastern Ukraine. After two years of fighting, and thousands of civilian and military casualties, there is still no political will to bring a meaningful end to the conflict in the East. And with an official ceasefire in place much of the world has lost interest in Ukraine. But life – and war – goes on

  • Schools Divided

    Not all US schools are treated equally. Despite decades of protests, court victories, and political pledges some schools still lack resources that are barriers to student success.

  • After The Shootings

    VICE News explores school shootings from Columbine to Parkland through the eyes of those who’ve survived. The stories trace how people and communities try to overcome the aftermath.

  • Planet in Peril

    With flooding coastlines and burning forests, Climate Change is here. VICE News goes from Greenland to Houston to see how global warming threatens our way of life.