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EXTINCTION UPDATE is an environmental alarm clock with five stories of human stupidity fucking up planet Earth, as well as some tips for how we can all help unfuck it.

Hidden deep within the swimming pools of The Hamptons is a mystical creature, spoken about in ancient legends and Disney films. Yes, it's a mermaid, and VICE is honoured with the opportunity to ask those blessed 10 questions on a Costa Rican beach.

Douglas McCauley works with new technologies and big data to help people get invested in the future of the oceans.

We spend a day at the Afropunk festival in Brooklyn, take a look at viral sensation Landon Meier's masks and get to the bottom of the internet with artist Trevor Paglen.

The Creators Project travels to Miami to meet Trevor Paglen, an artist, experimental geographer, and counter-surveillance researcher most known for his long distance pictures of secret military bases, and his contribution to Citizenfour.

In the full length version of "Surrounded: Island of the Sharks", Motherboard goes to Réunion to see why the island has experienced a spike in shark attacks since 2011, and how people are turning to science to restore balance with nature.

Reunion Island residents are taking shark research and attack-prevention measures into their own hands, an attempt at a more symbiotic relationship.

Danny Gold joins On The Line to discuss the violent overlap between drug trafficking and conservationism in Costa Rica.

VICE News witnesses the California Wildlife Center’s smallest and most frail sea lion pup as it learns how to eat a full fish.

Come aboard as the VICE crew takes a cruise to the Northern Gyre in the Pacific Ocean, a spot where currents spin and cycle, churning up tons of plastic into a giant pool of chemical soup, flecked with bits and whole chunks of refuse that cannot biodegrad

Chef Michael Teich of The Wallace in Culver City, California, teaches us how to make a seared scallop dish that is simple to make.