Amazon Japan G.K. on Wednesday started a locker delivery service, Amazon Hub, aimed at enhancing convenience for customers and reducing the need for re-deliveries. The e-commerce giant has installed lockers at FamilyMart Co. convenience stores and other locations for customers to pick up their packages. Amazon ...
Wildfires have destroyed 4 million hectares in Bolivia since August, group says
Wildfires in Bolivia have razed more than 4 million hectares (10 million acres) of forest and grassland since August, an NGO warned Wednesday, as a state of emergency spread to the country's northeast. The fires have torched some of the country's most environmentally sensitive areas ...
Over 300 slain in Brazil's Amazon over land and resources in past decade, HRW report says
A Human Rights Watch report on Tuesday found that more than 300 people have been killed over the past decade in conflicts over the use of land and resources in the Amazon, many by organized criminal networks profiting from illegal deforestation. Of those cases, only ...
The destruction of the Amazon rainforest is a major problem for the Earth. Read an article and lead a discussion on the ramifications of what is going on in Brazil.
Brazil's Amazon chief Raoni Metuktire tapped for 2020 Nobel Peace Prize nomination
A group of Brazilian anthropologists and environmentalists has put forward Chief Raoni Metuktire of the Kayapo tribe as a candidate for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for a lifetime of work protecting the Amazon rainforest. Raoni — an unmistakable Amazon icon with his large lip ...
Facebook Inc. will no longer allow graphic images of self-harm on its platform as it tightens its policies on suicide content amid growing criticism of how social media companies moderate violent and potentially dangerous content. The social network also said on Tuesday self-injury related content ...
The European Union's competition chief is getting a new term — with expanded powers — in a move that underlines how the bloc's battle to regulate big tech companies is only just beginning. Margrethe Vestager, who angered the Trump administration by imposing multibillion-dollar penalties on ...
As forests burn, Bolivian leader Evo Morales' bet on Big Farming comes under fire
In the tropical Bolivian city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, a wealthy farming hub on the edge on the Amazon rainforest, President Evo Morales gathered with ranchers late last month to celebrate a maiden shipment of beef to China. An elaborate ceremony was staged ...
Leaders of seven Amazon nations meet to bolster rainforest protection as fires rage on
Presidents and ministers from seven Amazon countries met in Colombia on Friday to agree on measures to protect the world's biggest rainforest, under threat from wildfires and rampant deforestation. The summit took place in the wake of an international outcry over months of raging fires ...
Clash of cultures as Amazon cowboys close in on indigenous lands
As evening falls over their Amazon home, the hunter gatherers of the Uru-eu-wau-wau people extract bamboo arrows from the flank of a wild pig and begin roasting it. A few miles — and a world — away on the opposite side of the rainforest's delicate ...
Indigenous leader in Brazil's Amazon tries to thwart loggers
An indigenous leader in Brazil's Amazon says he will do what he can to stop loggers and prospectors encroaching on his people's land. Kadjyre Kayapo and some companions searched in recent days for signs of trespassing in the lush rainforest of the Kayapo indigenous group's ...
Fires just one of the dangers facing the world’s largest rainforest
Wildfires are just one of the dangers facing the world's largest rainforest. The Amazon, covering 5.5 million square kilometers (2.1 million square miles) over nine countries, faces ever more serious threats from encroaching crop and livestock farming, mining, land occupation and illegal logging. Farming Deforestation for ...
