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We're highlighting stories from our archives on the effectiveness, implications, and origins of corporate boycotts and strikes.

More than ever before, employees are staging walkouts and boycotts to protest their own companies' business operations.

Globally, 80 percent of forest loss stems from turning over forest for agriculture to grow food for livestock and human consumption.

Although producers of soy, cattle, and timber were charged with environmental crimes, their products continue to flow into international markets.

Here's what the change could mean for food security among SNAP participants.

The feud's effect on the soybean trade could be the main culprit behind increased destruction of the Amazon.

In Sunset Park, Brooklyn, residents are challenging a new development, charging it won't create jobs for those who currently live in the neighborhood.

The Democratic presidential hopeful has proposed dismantling Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon monopolies.

After the company decided to break off its plans with Queens, the borough will return to the status quo, which might be more daunting than a worst-case Bezos scenario.

As Richard D. Wolff explains, the company's valuation and Jeff Bezos' personal wealth are signs not of unrivaled innovation, but of economic extortion.

Brazilian commodities producers have long dreamed of a railroad network crisscrossing Amazonia and the Cerrado, able to cheaply move crops and minerals from the nation's interior to South America's coasts. But factors, including lack of investment, political instability, and difficult terrain, have foiled those hopes—until now.

New research suggests that the rate of change in tree composition within the Amazon basin lags by two orders of magnitude behind the change in climate.

While illegal mining in the Amazon has been a problem for decades, new data shows levels that are not comparable to any other period of its history.

New research finds that fluctuations in atmospheric circulation systems and climate change are behind the increase in extreme flooding.

People opposed to Amazon's plan to locate its second North American headquarters in New York City protest at the courthouse in Queens on November 26th, 2018.

Now that Amazon's HQ2 search is finally over, people are once again calling for reforms to economic incentive packages.

At a rally on Wednesday, local politicians and activists excoriated Governor Andrew Cuomo for offering Amazon massive subsidies that could have gone to schools.

Some real estate speculators are already putting bets on the fact that housing prices in the winning city will inflate fast.

Despite their reputation as strongly liberal organizations, the political donations of tech companies like Amazon and Google go both ways.

Monopolization, data-privacy, and on-going labor concerns are all aspects of the issue that are seemingly flying under the radar.

New research finds just one season of drought can reduce the carbon dioxide absorption ability of the world's biggest rainforest—the Amazon—for years to come.

A new study using a combination of data sources finds that fire is causing more degradation of forests than logging, the other most significant driver of loss in the Amazon.

Critics in the city argue that the repeal of a tax that would help fund housing and homelessness initiatives is a capitulation to business interests.

A new study sheds light on which trees are the most suited for dealing with changing weather patterns in the region.