CARAJÁS, Brazil — Jefferson Sousa could have been eking out a living at the expense of the Amazon forest, working on a cattle ranch like his father. “It was all I knew, it was what kept our family ...

The Amazon rainforest currently has a few days or weeks of hot drought conditions per year, but researchers say this could ...

The forests of the world were suffering from the effects of global warming, but the Amazon might be flourishing. A new study found that the trees in the Amazon rainforest were increasing in size with ...

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A newly published study provides insight into why trees die in the Amazon, and why the rate of tree death may be increasing. The main risk factor explaining tree death was the mean growth rate of ...

Amazon’s contract delivery drivers are so desperate for work they’ve come up with a bizarre way to game the system: hanging phones in trees, Bloomberg reports. Like Uber, Amazon Flex lets drivers make ...

Cyber Week is still going strong, and Amazon is celebrating with tons of deals on Christmas trees. Now that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are over, it's only natural to be counting down the days to ...