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New research suggests 75% of the rainforest has become less resilient to stress since the early 2000s.
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Alphabet, Apple, Meta, Amazon and Microsoft have each taken some form of action against Russia — but the actual impact it will have isn’t clear.
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Amazon’s new Lord of the Rings TV show, The Rings of Power, takes place thousands of years before the popular movie franchise, and tells a story from deep Tolkien lore.
A satellite captured large and small deforestation patches in Amazonas State in 2015. The forest loss has escalated since then.
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Land grabs spearheaded by wealthy interests are accelerating deforestation, and Brazil’s National Congress is working to legitimize them.
Paper is part of seasonal marketing for both bricks and mortar and online retailers.
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The sensory importance of touch and nostalgia are some reasons retailers won’t turn the page on paper catalogues.
Six died as a tornado tore through an Amazon fulfillment center in Edwardsville, Illinois.
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The deaths of six Amazon employees at a factory hit by a tornado raises concerns over prohibitions on cellphones for workers.
Unions on the rise?
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Union membership has dwindled over the past five decades. But could a flurry of positive headlines over union drives help reverse this trend?
Choose and no queues.
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Sainsbury’s is also experimenting with the till-free technology.
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Black Friday, Christmas, and other ‘shopping events’ take a toll on the temporary workers hired to get purchases to consumers.
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We reviewed hundreds of documents and reports on workplace safety in Amazon warehouses.
Fires burn off forest cover and natural grasses to create cattle pasture in the Maya forest in Guatemala.
Jennifer Devine
More than 100 world leaders have pledged to end the destruction of forests by 2030 as a way to slow climate change. That will require changing how the world produces four widely used commodities.
This image of the Earth from a distance, known as the Blue Marble, was taken by Apollo 17 astronauts.
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Photographing the full Earth from space could provide a profound and timely reminder of its vulnerability in the face of climate change.
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Corporate rebranding is fundamental to the spread of metacapitalism which uses increasingly sophisticated technology to shape, exploit and profit from human interaction.
Brazil’s President, Jair Bolsonaro, at the launch of the National Green Growth Program in Brasilia, Brazil.
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Deforestation in Brazil was falling before 2014. Under Bolsonaro, it’s back to record highs.
Indigenous activists have long been protesting the Belo Monte complex.
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Diverting water to a hydroelectric dam might seem eco-friendly, but the devastating consequences to local ecosystems cannot be ignored.
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A proposed online privacy code would give consumers more control over how tech companies collect and use their data
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Big labels are making big money from streaming.
Current climate future predictions do not go far enough.
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September 26, 2021
Christopher Lyon , McGill University ; Alex Dunhill , University of Leeds ; Andrew P. Beckerman , University of Sheffield ; Ariane Burke , Université de Montréal ; Bethany Allen , University of Leeds ; Chris Smith , University of Leeds ; Daniel J. Hill , University of Leeds ; Erin Saupe , University of Oxford ; James McKay , University of Leeds ; Julien Riel-Salvatore , Université de Montréal ; Lindsay C. Stringer , University of York ; Rob Marchant , University of York , dan Tracy Aze , University of Leeds
Climate change predictions often use the year 2100 as an end-point. But it’s important to consider what will happen beyond that, at least up to the year 2500.
We are logging more than can be sustained by tropical forests.
Plinio Sist
Observations collected since the 1980s in the Amazon, Central Africa and Southeast Asia show we are not giving tropical forests enough time to recover after logging.
WWF Australia
The push for a new environmental crime has attracted high-profile backers including French President Emmanuel Macron, Pope Francis and Greta Thunberg. But we must get the details right.