River Island is axing hundreds of jobs as it closes shops in a battle for survival. The fashion firm plans to shut 33 stores as shoppers abandon the High Street and head online.

Indigenous and riverine communities in the Loreto region of the Peruvian Amazon have "chronic exposure" to mercury, according to a new study — and experts say the biggest culprit is gold mining ...

California, one of the world's largest economies and a major importer of Amazon crude, must take stronger climate action, Koenig added and called on the state to phase out its reliance on oil ...

Terrifying footage captured the moment a man bit a giant anaconda to save himself from being crushed in a Brazilian river. Veuer’s Maria Mercedes Galuppo has the story. Sean "Diddy" Combs drops ...

The Alberta riding of Battle River-Crowfoot is roughly 3,000 kilometres away physically, and a good few light years away culturally, from the Ontario riding of Carleton, which Conservative Leader ...

The Bridge on the River Kwai, written by the author behind Planet of The Apes and directed by one of Britain's most renowned filmmakers, is set to leave Amazon Prime Video in just a matter of days ...

RICHMOND, California (AP) — An oil tanker sat docked at Chevron’s sprawling refinery in Richmond on Thursday — a visible link between California’s appetite for Amazon crude and the remote ...

California’s future is closely tied to the Amazon’s — the state relies on the rainforest’s role in climate regulation and rainfall, Koenig said, warning that continued Amazon crude imports ...

The preservation push in Ecuador comes as another South American country that includes part of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil, is moving ahead with plans to further develop oil resources. On Tuesday, ...