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Drawing his .40-caliber pistol, Severiano Pontes dashes across the steaming, muddy jungle floor, a hunch telling him what he would find around a bend.
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped nearly 46 percent from August 2008 to July 2009 — the biggest annual decline in two decades, the government said Thursday.
Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. said Thursday that it's going to offer Web-based services to businesses in Asia starting next year.
Shares of Amazon.com Inc. got a boost Friday after a Bernstein Research analyst upgraded the Seattle-based online retailer, expecting faster revenue growth in 2010.
A plane that went missing over the Amazon made an emergency river landing in a remote part of the rain forest and nine of the 11 people aboard survived, the Brazilian air force said Friday.
You're probably used to typing your name, address and credit card number when you buy things online. Amazon.com is guessing you don't enjoy it, though, and wants to simplify the process by letting you purchase items with a short phrase such as "Shopping Fanatic" and an identification number.
Ecuador's president is in London this week to promote a unique proposal: pay his country $3 billion not to drill for oil in a pristine Amazon reserve.
Low prices, solid customer service and an increasing willingness by consumers to spend on discretionary items contributed to Amazon.com Inc.'s solid third quarter, and the growth should continue despite weakness elsewhere in retail.
In an Oct. 22 story about Amazon.com Inc.'s third-quarter earnings, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the online retailer's net income rose 62 percent. The correct rise in net income was 68 percent. The same error was in an Oct. 22 overview on Wall Street developments.
Shares of Amazon.com Inc. rose Friday after several analysts upgraded the online retailer in light of better than expected third-quarter results, a performance they say bodes well for future quarters.
Though Amazon.com Inc. calls the Kindle its best-selling product, the online retailer has repeatedly declined to say how many of the e-reader it has sold since introducing it nearly two years ago.
Amazon.com Inc.'s shares surged Friday after the company reported third-quarter results that showed consumers comfortable opening their wallets to the online retailer despite the still-shaky economy.
Amazon.com Inc. is trying to get more people to buy the electronic books that are compatible with its Kindle gadget by offering free software for people to read them on a computer.
Amazon.com Inc. is slated to give its third-quarter report after the market close on Thursday. The results will show investors how much consumers are spending at the online retailer despite the still-sluggish economy.
Amazon.com Inc. reports its earnings for the third quarter on Thursday. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period.
Amazon.com Inc. is cutting the price of its Kindle electronic-book reader yet again and launching an international version, in hopes of spurring more sales and keeping it ahead of a growing field of competitors.
Amazon.com has agreed that it won't remove e-books from U.S. users' Kindle electronic readers without their permission, as part of a proposed settlement of a lawsuit over the online retailer's deletion of a George Orwell novel from a high school student's e-reader.
Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen is a new United Nations advocate for environmental awareness — and reportedly wants her own president to do more to halt Amazon deforestation.
Consumers visit Amazon.com for deals on products from companies ranging from Apple Inc. to Zenith Electronics Corp. Now, the online retailer wants shoppers to check out stuff that carries Amazon's own brand name, too.
Brazil will prohibit sugarcane-ethanol plantations in the Amazon and other ecologically sensitive areas of Latin America's largest nation under a plan unveiled Thursday by the administration of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Amazon.com Inc. is offering free books or $30 to Kindle customers whose copies of the George Orwell novels "1984" and "Animal Farm" were deleted from their electronic reading devices in July.
Peruvian Amazon Indian leaders are warning of renewed protests, alleging Friday that the government has not honored promises made in the aftermath of June violence that left at least 23 police and 10 Indians dead.
A former Brazilian environment minister who is a famed campaigner to protect the Amazon rainforest from development says she is leaving the governing Workers Party and may run for president next year.
Eight Amazon Indians of the Machiguenga tribe have tested positive for swine flu and are recovering, Peruvian health officials said Wednesday.
A Peruvian government prosecutor presented homicide charges against two police generals and 15 other officers for a June government crackdown at an Amazon highway blockade manned by Indians protesting development on their ancestral lands.
Amazon says no plans to open physical storesAmazon.com Inc (AMZN.O), the world's largest online retailer, has no plans to open stores anywhere in the world, it said on Sunday, in response to a report it was planning to open high street shops in Britain.
Sting urges Brazil to listen to tribal dam fearsRock star Sting has used his latest visit to Brazil to urge the government there to listen to the concerns of indigenous peoples over a proposed new hydro-electric dam in the Amazon.
Paying locals to save the AmazonA program that pays forest families to guard the environment is Brazil's latest tool to cut deforestation ahead of December's global climate talks in Copenhagen.
Uncontacted tribe's forest bulldozed for beefThe only uncontacted tribe in South America outside the Amazon is having its forest rapidly and illegally bulldozed by ranchers who want their land to graze cattle for beef.
Ultimate Insider Black Friday GuideWith a slowly recovering economy, retailers are looking for ways to lure wary customers into their stores on Black Friday. Some retailers are attracting shoppers by staying open on Thanksgiving Day, in addition to extending their hours on Black Friday.
For Wal-Mart and Amazon, the First Round of a Price FightAli had Frazier. Coke has Pepsi. The Yankees have the Red Sox. Now Wal-Mart, the mightiest retail giant in history, may have met its own worthy adversary: Amazon.com.
Complete Works of William Shakespeare ~ 197 Plays, Poems & SonnetsComplete Works of William Shakespeare ~ 197 Plays, Poems & Sonnets and it's only 99¢
'Kindle For PC' is Now a Free Download from AmazonAmazon.com has just released a free program for your PC that enables you to view Kindle Books on your computer. The current version is compatible with IE-7, Vista, and Windows 7. The 'Whispernet' link is also included. It takes up about five megabytes of space on your computer.
Choosing the Small Screen of a Smartphone for E-ReadingWith Amazon's Kindle, readers can squeeze hundreds of books into a device that is smaller than most hardcovers.
FACT CHECK: Palin's Book Goes Rogue On Some FactsSarah Palin's new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven't become any truer over time. Ignoring substantial parts of her record if not the facts, she depicts herself as a frugal traveler on the taxpayer's dime, a reformer without ties to pow …
Brazil deforestation drops to lowest level since 1980s On the eve of vital climate change talks in Copenhagen, Brazil has announced a reduction in Amazon deforestation to its lowest level since the 1980s.
1491 - Is the Amazon the world's largest man-made garden?Before it became the New World, the Western Hemisphere was vastly more populous and sophisticated than has been thought—an altogether more salubrious place to live at the time than, say, Europe.
What ever happened to the Amazon rain forest? Did we save it? - By Brendan Borrell - Slate MagazineWe didn't save it, but we haven't stopped trying. Environmentalists fret over the fate of the Amazon for good reason: It contains more than half of the planet's remaining tropical rainforest, one-fifth of our global freshwater, and as much as one-third of the world's biodiversity.
Nine E-Readers to Gawk At - Photo Essays - TIMEPhoto Essay from Time Magazine. Not sure how old this E-Reader list is. But I didn't know there were other companies outside of Sony and the Kindle that were selling competitive E-readers. Cool. Would love to buy one of these.
Landscape 1.4 Adds UEC SupportCloud management dominates the theme for Landscape 1.4 with new features that allow you to manage your private Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) as easily as you manage your instances on Amazon EC2.
Amazon simplifies payments with new PayPhrase systemAmazon Payments has introduced a new way to pay at Amazon.com and a number of other web retailers. The service is called PayPhrase and lets users enter a phase and personal identification number to speed up the checkout process, it said on Thursday.
Chevron Admits Contact in Ecuadorian Case Against Them For Poisoning the RainforestIn a stunning admission, Chevron`s top outside counsel on the Ecuador environmental case has publicly conceded that the company`s own lawyers met with a Chevron contractor regarding his secret video recordings just days before he taped a critical meeting in Ecuador about a purpo …
What do WalMart and Target have in common with the public option on health care? For the answer to that, you have to look at the antitrust laws, and the theory of monopoly, predatory practices in a free market system.
MySQL gets cloudy with Amazon's new database service - Ars TechnicaAmazon has offered a new SQL database service for cloud computing. It is based on Sun's open source MySQL database. Python programmers have already figured out how to make it work with the Django web/database application programming framework.
Walmart, Target, Amazon: Book Price War Heats Up'Tis the season to be shopping for best-selling books. Thanks to an almost comical price war that has broken out among a few of the country's retail giants, more people may be reading over the holidays.
Amazon Shakes up Kindle SelectionAmazon's changes include abandoning the Kindle 2, dropping the price of the new international edition from $279 to $259, and introducing a new Kindle for PC application as part of the launch of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system.
Lizards Filmed 'Walking on Water'Two creatures that can "walk on water," the basilisk lizard and the gecko, are discussed in this BBC article.
Aussie Readers Slugged With Higher CostsAustralian Kindle users will have to pay about 40 per cent more than Americans for books on the Amazon e-book readers and the local publishing industry has expressed serious reservations about supporting the gizmo.
Peru Indian tribes join forces to fight off Amazon sale to oil companiesThey emerged from the thick, green jungle clenching their spears: a long file of barefoot chiefs and elders, their faces painted with their tribal markings and crowns of red, blue and yellow parrot feathers.
Amazon's Kindle Ebook Reader GEts $40 Price CutAnticipating the arrival of fresh competition, Amazon.com Inc. on Wednesday slashed the price of its Kindle electronic-book reader by $40 to $259
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