AWS growth is accelerating, advertising is thriving with revenues exceeding $60 billion annually, and Amazon is

The Amazon’s worst fire season in decades is turning the rainforest into a massive carbon emitter.

Amazon ( AMZN 1.93%) is the world's largest e-commerce and cloud infrastructure company, yet it remains a market-beating growth stock. Over the past three years, its stock has rallied by about 170% as the S&P 500 has risen by less than 80%.

The Amazon is undergoing a radical transformation. New research suggests the rainforest is now entering a hypertropical state, a condition not seen on Earth for millions of years, driven by extreme heat and intensifying drought.

Aerial surveys have revealed the largest pre-colonial cities in the Amazon yet discovered, linked by an extensive network of roads. “The settlements are much bigger than others in the Amazon,” says Stéphen Rostain at the French National Center for ...

Amazon had a disappointing 2025, with the stock only rising around 6% while the S&P 500 gained around 18%. That's a sharp underperformance and will have been frustrating for investors since nearly every other big tech company had a much better year. However, thanks to its underperformance, Amazon may be slated to enjoy a much better year ahead.

CHICAGO — Indigenous people in the Amazon may have been deliberately creating fertile soil for farming for thousands of years. At archaeological sites across the Amazon River basin, mysterious patches of unusually fertile soil dot the landscape.

When dolphins began washing up dead by the dozens on Lake Tefe in Brazil's Amazonas state, hydrologist Ayan Fleischmann was sent to find out why. What he and his colleagues discovered was startling: a brutal drought and extreme heat wave that began in ...

Mongabay has begun publishing a new edition of the book, “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,” in short installments and in three languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese. Author Timothy J. Killeen is an academic and expert who, since the 1980s, has ...

Many locals are cheering on the Brazilian government’s plans to rebuild a decrepit highway. Environmentalists are less keen