Amazon

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.

• By Morgan Erickson-Davis

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.

• By David Klinges

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.

• By Sarah Holder

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

• By Morgan Erickson-Davis

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Amazon, one of many tech companies that have called for reform of government surveillance, is selling facial recognition services to cops.

• By Kate Wheeling

A little-known tax incentive could provide important investment to areas that haven't yet recovered from the Great Recession, but the incentives don't come without risks.

• By Kriston Capps

A swift victory in the Colombian Supreme Court could pave the way for further legal action around the world.

• By Sophie Yeo

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• By Kate Wheeling
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The special incentives that governments have offered companies like Amazon to move their operations into new states are controversial at best and illegal at worst.

• By Sarah Holder

The e-retailer's new model of cashier-less stores has some people buzzing, but others wondering what the lack of personal contact means for the future of city life.

• By Joshua McNichols

Amazon Echo is always listening. Amazon Key invites companies into your home. But who exactly is surveilling whom?

• By Katie Fustich

Atlanta is pushing to be the home of the tech giant's second headquarters, but Georgia's continued efforts to pass religious freedom laws could impede that plan.

• By Sarah Holder

A lesson for public officials courting Amazon.

• By Rick Paulas

A new report finds that scientists described 381 new species of wildlife from the Amazon in peer-reviewed scientific journals between January of 2014 and December of 2015. Some, however, are already on the brink of extinction.

• By Shreya Dasgupta

In the country's southeast Guaviare department, harvested wood rots on the ground while gangs and drug traffickers take over the land for illegal mining and agriculture.

• By Antonio José Paz Cardona

Yasuní National Park and the Tagaeri-Taromenane Intangible Zone, home to isolated indigenous groups, have become hotspots of illegal logging and hunting.

• By Daniela Aguilar

Small and medium-scale agriculture was responsible for 80 percent of the deforestation between 2001 and 2015.

• By Alexa Eunoé Vélez Zuazo

Why are so many people in the publishing business so mad at the company?

• By Patrick Oathout

It could be, if companies like Uber become platform providers more than the services themselves.

• By Beejoli Shah

Henry Ford and Detroit radically changed the economic geography of the world. Now, Jeff Bezos and Seattle are poised to do the same.

• By Jim Russell

During COP21, the International Rights of Nature Tribunal will also meet in Paris. Can Ecuador protect Yasuni National Park—and how can other countries learn from South America?

• By Vanessa Hua

It’s time to privilege empowerment over efficiency.

• By Ellen Ruppel Shell