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Watch Amazon's 'Mozart in the Jungle' for Free This Weekend
2016-01-14 22:02:48| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
Amazon is celebrating its Golden Globe-winning original series with 20 free episodes starting at 12 a.m. Saturday.
Peering into the Amazon's future
2016-01-05 14:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Harvard researchers are challenging the widely-held theory that climate change could cause Amazon forests to rapidly change from forests to savannah. A new model, based on the effect of water stress on individual trees, suggests the change would be a gradual transition from high-biomass forests to low-biomass forests and woodland ecosystems. The study is described in a recently published paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "In earlier approaches, they use an aggregated...
Retailers are rushing to match Amazon's same-day delivery - but it isn't easy, or cheap
2015-11-23 21:31:57| IT Services - Topix.net
In this Feb. 13, 2015, file photo, a forklift operator moves a pallet of goods at an Amazon.com fulfillment center in DuPont, Wash. This year, Amazon has been making an aggressive push to offer same-day delivery to its $99 annual Prime loyalty club members.
More than half of the Amazons tree species may be threatened with extinction
2015-11-21 09:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Of the Amazon's 15,000 tree species, thousands are at risk. Those in the southern and eastern parts of the Amazon, where deforestation rates are highest, are the most threatened. The present network of protected areas and indigenous territories, which covers over 50 percent of the Amazon, could offer a ray of hope, researchers say. While the results are still preliminary, researchers say that the study provides the size, urgency, and feasibility of undertaking the task of evaluating the Amazon...
Brazil has battled for decades to halt Amazon's destruction
2015-11-05 11:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: In December this year the U.N. Climate Conference takes place in Paris. Ahead of the summit, we will release a series of stories, titled "Earthprints," that show the ability of humans to change the landscape of the planet. From sprawling urban growth to the construction of new islands, each site has profoundly changed in the last 30 years. Each story has accompanying NASA satellite images that show the scale of the change. In international talks over global climate policy, Brazil's government...
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