The Brazilian Navy has rescued three men who had been floating in a fridge for hours on the Amazon River. Naval officers found and rescued the men from a vast tranche of the mighty Amazon River, which is the world's largest by volume, close to the Brazilian city of Santarem…
A stalker who killed his lover when she tried to end the relationship has been jailed for 10 years after cops managed to interrogate the only witness - Amazon's Alexa. The home assistant device recorded everything and was used by the German cops to successfully prosecute 54-year-old heating engineer Dieter…
A new study has reported that the Amazon rainforest has lost an area the size of Spain in 18 years due to deforestation. The tropical rainforest has lost an area of 513,016 square kilometres (198,077 square miles) between 2000 and 2018, according to the Amazon Geo-Referenced Socio-Environmental Information Network (RAISG).…
British MP Sarah Owen has criticised Amazon for promoting products featuring white models in ‘yellowface’. The British-Chinese Labour MP for Luton North said on Twitter that she had a “frustrating” meeting with Amazon UK chiefs about the images on their platform. Taking to Twitter after the disappointing meeting, Owen, who…
These are the shocking images of the fires currently engulfing the Brazilian Amazon and Pantanal, as smoke from the fires reaches five neighbouring countries. The grey cloud of smoke has spread across 4,000 kilometres (2,485 miles) and has reached Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay. The Brazilian National Institute for…
