Oil drilling project near mouth of Amazon River rejected by Brazil's environmental regulator
Brazilโs environmental regulator has refused to grant a license for a controversial offshore oil drilling project near the mouth of the Amazon River, prompting celebration from environmentalists who had warned of its potential impact.
Oil project near Amazon River mouth blocked by Brazil's environment agency
Brazilโs environmental regulator has refused to grant a license for a controversial offshore oil drilling project near the mouth of the Amazon River, prompting celebration from environmentalists who had warned of its potential impact.
Lyft to pick up new CEO amid deepening post-pandemic losses
Lyft co-founders Logan Green and John Zimmer are relinquishing their leadership roles to make way for a former Amazon executive as the ride-hailing service struggles to recover from the pandemic while long-time rival Uber has been regaining its momentum.
At Gabon talks, a debate on who pays to save world's forests
A summit on how to protect the worldโs largest forests underway in Gabon is set to be dominated by the issue of who pays for the protection and reforesting of lands that are home to some of the worldโs most diverse species and contribute to limiting planet-warming emissions.
New this week: 'True Lies,' Wallen and 'Creed' film fest
This weekโs new entertainment releases include a whopping 36-song album from Morgan Wallen, the arrival on Hulu of the best picture Oscar nominee and Palme dโOr winner โTriangle of Sadnessโ and CBS has a new TV series inspired by the film โTrue Lies.โ.
New this week: 'Your Place or Mine' and 'All That Breathes'
This weekโs new entertainment releases include an album from Paramore that shows off the band's funkier side, the Academy Award-nominated documentary โAll That Breathesโ about Indian brothers who heal birds of prey, and two rom-coms just in time for Valentine's Day โ โYour Place or Mineโ on Netflix and โSomebody I Used to Knowโ on Amazon Prime Video.
New this week: Jennifer Lopez, Sam Smith and 'You People'
This weekโs new entertainment releases include fresh albums from Sam Smith and Elle King, the return of Jennifer Lopez in the rom-com โShotgun Wedding,โ and the TV show โPoker Face,โ starring Natasha Lyonne as a wise-cracking, friendly drifter who has an uncanny ability to immediately know if someone is lying.
Amazon Music expands catalog to 100M songs for members
Amazon Music is gearing up for a massive content expansion: The streaming giant will offer a full catalog of music with more than 100 million songs for members The streaming service tells The Associated Press that members will gain hundreds of millions of songs โ up from 2 million โ in shuffle mode without any advertisement at no additional costs.
Big Brazilian gold refiner delisted amid Amazon mining probe
One of Brazilโs biggest gold refiners, which processes gold suspected of being mined illegally in the Amazon rainforest, has been stripped of an important industry seal of approval that global manufacturers from Apple to Tesla rely on to root out abuses in their supply chains.