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Image from a poster depicting a toucan at the new exhibition, "Imaginary Amazon," at the University of San Diego, featuring works by contemporary artists, many of them Indigenous inhabitants of the Amazon. 
Arts, Culture & Media
‘Imaginary Amazon’ exhibition counters negative stereotypes through contemporary art
Felled trees on Karipuna territory in the Amazonian state of Rondônia.
Environment
Lula empowers Brazil’s Indigenous peoples with their own ministry. But environmental protection remains a key concern.
people in the crowd
Sacred Nation
Evangelicals in Brazil want to make contact with Indigenous groups. But why?
Protesting farmers ride tractors and shout slogans as they march to the capital, breaking police barricades, during India's Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi, India
Top of The World
India repeals controversial farm laws after a year of protests
Sylvia Whitman, proprietor of the English and American literature Shakespeare and Co. bookstore, checks her messages on her phone in Paris, France, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020.
Books
A new law in France aims to protect indie bookshops against outsized Amazon competition
Jeff Bezos in profile
Business
The rise, future and legacy of Bezos and Amazon
Greenpeace activists hold signs between two ice sculptures depicting US President Donald Trump and Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro across the Hudson River from UN headquarters in the Queens borough of New York City, Sept. 30, 2020.
Foreign policy
US election could have profound effect on Bolsonaro’s Brazil
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is shown wearing a dark suit and standing behind a microphone with a Turkish flag nearby.
Top of The World
‘Draconian’ social media legislation passed in Turkey; Trump administration issues DACA memo; Tech CEOs testify.
Politics with Amy Walter: Are Democrats Breaking Up with Big Tech?
Full Episode
Amazon Comes to the Neighborhood
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Business
In Mexico, e-commerce comes to the corner store
The 25 youth plaintiffs represent 17 cities in Colombia, including four within the Amazon rainforest.
Colombian high court grants personhood to Amazon rainforest in case against country’s government
San Antonio dam
Environment
The era of mega-dams in Brazil may be coming to an end
Amazpn and Apple to repay back taxes
Business, Finance & Economics
EU turns screws on Amazon and Apple, demands millions in back taxes
pills
Business
Could an Amazon pharmacy be a prescription for industry change?
The Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island in New York Harbor.
Arts
A fascist America, as revealed by an Amazon series
The Encounter
Arts
Listen to the audio sorcery used in the Broadway show ‘The Encounter’
Jeff Bezos: Behemoth? Amazon Plans A Monster Make Over
Full Episode
An image used to advertise the illegal stimulant “bath salts” on IndiaMart.
Health
IndiaMart, one of the largest online marketplaces, sells meth, ecstasy and bath salts
Workers sort arriving products at an Amazon Fulfilment Center in Tracy, Calif.
Business
Amazon’s harsh hours might not fly at some foreign operations
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
Business
Is this the workplace of the future?
A house in Berkeley, Calif. decorated with old TV sets.
Media
Technology is creating many ways to binge on TV’s current golden age
Amazon's drone delivery program, known as Amazon Prime Air, will be doing its testing in Canada because of tight FAA airspace rules.
Technology
Blocked in the US, Amazon drones go north of the border
A worker fills a water tanker for distribution to a hospital in São Paulo in February. Residents throughout the metropolitan region of 20 million people are taking emergency measures amid a severe drought.
Environment
South America’s largest city is almost out of water
The marquee of United Artists Theater during Amazon's premiere screening of the TV series "Transparent" in Los Angeles, California on September 15, 2014.
Technology
Amazon’s new show might mark a new era in how you watch TV
Bon Appétit's low-carbon food plan calls for putting vegetables at the center of the plate. Making the plate smaller cuts down on waste.
Environment
Cafeteria lunch: Industrial kitchens dish out climate-friendly cuisine
Arts, Culture & Media
The Amazon Water Lily, Queen Victoria and the British Empire
The Amazon’s Last Uncontacted Tribes
New Amazon App Targets Bookstores
Environmental Activists Murdered in the Amazon
One River
One River
Urban Jungle Monkey
Children of the Amazon
The Cofans of the Amazon
Arts, Culture & Media
Amazon geoglyphs
Environment
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