25
Apr
10 most well-read cities in America
Amazon.com lists Alexandria, Va. as the leading city for book sales in their annual ranking.
25
Apr
10 most well-read cities in America
Amazon.com lists Alexandria, Va. as the leading city for book sales in their annual ranking.
27
Mar
5 amazing things spotted in the Peruvian Amazon
Clever spiders and weird caterpillars lurk in the rain forests.
10
Nov
Is free shipping really free?
Are ‘free shipping’ promotions a great way to save money, or just a ploy? We investigated what online retailers are really offering.
13
Sep
Is Amazon Prime eco-friendly or wasteful?
Does the ease of free, one-click shipping outweigh the potential environmental costs?
06
Sep
In the past 40 years, as much as 20 percent of the Amazon rain forest has been cut down. The rain forest produces half of its own precipitation. As the forest is destroyed and burned for industrial purposes, the remaining trees dry out and die. This activity has made Brazil one of the largest greenhouse gas emitters on the planet.
7 ways humans are damaging the planet
Amazonian deforestation may cut rainfall by a fifth
Rainfall across the vast basin could lessen, potentially inflicting costs on farmers and reducing hydro-electricity output from receding river flows.
03
Sep
Amazon fungi help create clouds, rain
Salty potassium specks from the rainforest floor help seed the rainclouds in the Amazon.
23
Aug
Amazon offers ‘novel’ look at U.S. politics
The online retailer’s new ‘Election Heat Map’ uses book-sales data to reveal a widespread Republican streak among its American customers.
06
Aug
Satellite photos show Amazon vanishing
Clear-cutting for roads and agriculture has transformed the Amazon rain forest in western Brazil, as a new set of satellite images from NASA illustrates.
13
Jul
As Amazon’s ‘extinction debt’ piles, species will pay the price
Species will continue to go extinct more than 3 decades after deforestation in the Amazon has stopped, if key forest areas are not restored.
