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Some Rich People Are Building a Giant Clock Inside a Mountain

The team behind the construction—boasting names like Kevin Kelly, founding editor of Wired magazine and Brian Eno—want the clock to destroy the short-term thinking they believe is plaguing society. Their aim is to engage the population so we all properly consider the ways we should be preparing for the future. Full story

Is Chinese Big Oil Going to Destroy Ecuador's Amazon?

To oil and gas companies, the Amazon rainforest is one huge cash cow just begging to be milked. But anyone who'd rather not rid the world of 30 percent of its animal species would probably argue it's a region that shouldn't be destroyed by rich people. Full story

Lulz and Leg Irons: In the Courtroom with Weev

On the morning of March 18, I was sitting at the Federal Courthouse in Newark, New Jersey, waiting to hear how long Weev would spend in jail. I didn't go there to write an article. I went because his conviction was wrong, and my friends and I cared for him. I wanted to be another… Full story

Jungle Smolder

Urbanization has left the Peruvian Amazon burning. Full story

Popping the Marks

Confession of a Muslim Psychedelic Tea Drinker

The place of drugs in Islam is much more complicated than most people recognize. Because the Qur’an only speaks specifically of wine, Muslims have had to figure out Islamic positions on other substances, like weed or psychoactive tea made from an Amazonian vine. Full story

The Amazon Is a Dangerous Place If You Live on a Bunch of Gold

Last week, news broke that back in July illegal goldminers allegedly wiped out an entire village of indigenous Yanomami in the Amazon. Reports suggest that they did this by raining down machine gun fire and crude explosives from helicopters. Full story

Scalps Ahoy

Shoddy Amazon Boats Will Pull Your Face Off

Propeller-inflicted deaths and injuries have become such a serious public health issue in the poverty-stricken Brazilian Amazon. AMRVEA got together with the government and the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgeons to give 87 scalping victims free surgery. We went there to talk t… Full story

Hamilton's Pharmacopeia

The Sapo Diaries

VICE heads into the Amazon on a hunt for its most hallucinogenic tree frogs, but federal agents, monster bugs, and an inept shaman keep getting in the way. Full story

Surf Gangs

Of the Amazon

To find the Amazon surf gangs and their incredible music you have to go to Belem, in the state of Para, several days up the river from Manaus. One surprising thing about these cities is they used to be among the richest in the world. Full story