Brazil enlists bank managers to combat deforestation

After struggling for years to track and punish deforestation across the world's largest rainforest, Brazil is recruiting new allies in the battle to protect the Amazon: bank managers. A...

flydubai, Amazon Web Services collaborate to strengthen airline’s digital capabilities

flydubai, the Dubai-based carrier, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a new collaboration to advance the airline’s digital capabilities and enhance its customer journey through AWS’s cloud and artificial...

Sheikh Mohamed, Bezos discuss fostering partnerships in innovation, technology and AI

UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan received Jeff Bezos, Founder and Executive Chairman of Amazon. The meeting at Qasr Al Shati in Abu Dhabi discussed...

Jamaica and small island states want new push on 1.5C target

As COP30 climate talks kicked off in Brazil's port city of Belem on Monday, opening speeches in the Amazonas hall were heavy on ambition, but just down the corridor...

Carbon experiment in Brazil’s Amazon forest

Belem climate summit will witness a curious scientific experiment which will showcase the impact of climate caused by increasing presence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Scientists are demonstrating...

Why uncontacted peoples are under growing threat

From the depths of Brazil's Amazon to Indonesia's rainforests, some of the world's most isolated peoples are being squeezed by roads, miners and drug traffickers — a crisis unfolding...

Amazon to cut about 14,000 corporate jobs

Amazon said on Tuesday it will reduce its corporate workforce by about 14,000 people, in a major shakeup driven in part by adoption of artificial intelligence that will result...

Amazon's AWS recovering after major outage disrupts apps, services worldwide

Amazon's cloud services unit AWS was recovering on Monday from a widespread outage that knocked out thousands of websites along with some of the world's most popular apps —...

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Amazon opens 1st fulfilment centre in Abu Dhabi

Amazon has launched its first fulfilment centre in Abu Dhabi, in partnership with the Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO). The new facility is designed to advance logistics and fulfilment...