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Amazon has hired 175,000 temporary workers to deal with a spike in online shopping during the coronavirus pandemic. Now it's offering most of them permanent jobs.

Amazon's cloud computing service provides back-end support to many companies that operate online. When it has problems, so do they.

The closure of a Kentucky warehouse is the first confirmed prolonged shutdown of an Amazon facility. Workers in at least 10 others have tested positive for COVID-19, prompting shorter closures.

The isolated tribes of the Amazon are getting dispersed or dying out. Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin describes what we'll lose if their culture and collective wisdom vanish with them.

It's a really large mail-in election. (Yes, this one, too.) The tally of yes and no votes has finally begun.

Some 2,000 workers from four facilities have signed cards seeking an election to form a union, according to organizers.

Workers voted against joining a grassroots union called Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment, or CAUSE.

A prolonged drought, now in its second year, is devastating large swaths of Brazil's Amazon rainforest. Whole communities and the Amazon's largest city are struggling under the parched conditions.

The Indigenous Achuar people in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest sail in six solar-powered canoes. And it's not just to save money on fuel — the trees of the rainforest will benefit too.

Amazon workers at a warehouse on Staten Island, N.Y., voted to form the company's first union in the United States.