According to data shared by the Brazilian government, the deforestation of Amazon, the largest rainforest in the world, elevated for the 14th consecutive month. In the Brazilian Amazon, the deforestation is 83 percent ahead of where it was a year ago. The data collected by the national space research institute […]
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Amazon Is Selling a Guesthouse ‘Kit’ You Can Build in Your Backyard in 8 Hours
Well, it apparently takes 8 hours to build a cute guesthouse from Amazon called the Allwood Solvalla. It’s a 172-square foot studio cabin garden house that is just like it sounds- a DIY guest house with approximate assembly time of 8 hours if two adults are putting it together, claims […]
Deforested Amazon Rainforest Is Releasing more CO2 than it Absorbs
According to researchers, 1/5th of the Amazon rainforest is releasing more CO2 than it absorbs because of the forest fires and deforestation. For the purposes of the research, the team has been monitoring the release of gases over the basin of Amazon for the last 10 years, during which, millions […]
Amazon Donated $690,000 for Australian Recovery from Fires- People Claim Bezos Owes the World more
The founder and CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, also one of the wealthiest people in the world, has announced that his company will give $1 million Australian dollars to help Australia in their management of the bushfires. Even though $690,000 isn’t a small sum, Bezos’s announcement has stirred up social […]
Amazon Threatens Its Workers with Dismissal If They Speak Out against Climate Changes
According to tech workers from the retail giant Amazon, the company has threatened to fire its workers if they speak out publically about the role of the company in the climate crisis. An email shared with The Guardian shows the HR department of Amazon opening an investigation into one of […]
Is Amazon really Selling Trash-Scavenged Products?!
According to a new report, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure and this is apparently the case with some products being sold on the Amazon platform. The globally-popular online retailer is known to sell thousands of products daily; however, not all of these are new- some have actually been […]
Popular Model Bella Hadid Vows Planting Trees to Reduce Carbon Footprint because of Her Travels
Bella Hadid wrote in a sincere Instagram post that she’ll start planting trees to offset her carbon footprint. She has donated 600 trees for planting, 20 for every flight she took in the past 3 months and will most probably continue for the rest of the year. She feels sad […]
Brazilian President Claims Leonardo DiCaprio Is Guilty for Amazon Fires- This Is the Actor’s Response
Jair Bolsonaro, the president of Brazil, blames actor Leonardo DiCaprio for making donations to NGOs that he claims are behind the fires in the Amazon. Bolsonaro told his supporters that DiCaprio is the cool guy who’s giving money to set the Amazon on fire. He claims the actor is assisting […]
Ecuador Amazon Tribe Wins First Victory against Oil Companies
Waorani, an Ecuador indigenous tribe, won the first victory against oil companies in a ruling which prohibits their entry on ancestral Amazon lands to explore for oil extraction purposes. After two weeks of deliberations, the criminal court in Puyo in Central Ecuador accepted a bid from the Waorani for court […]