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During the early 2000s, deforestation in the Amazon rainforest showed an increasing trend, with an annual rate of 27,423 km 2 (10,588 sq mi) of forest loss recorded in 2004. Subsequently, the annual rate of forest loss generally slowed between 2004 and 2012, although there were spikes in deforestation rates in 2008, [ 56 ] 2013, [ 57 ] and 2015.
Amazon websites are country-specific (for example, amazon.com for the US and amazon.co.uk for UK) though some offer international shipping. [ 48 ] Visits to amazon.com grew from 615 million annual visitors in 2008, [ 49 ] to more than 2 billion per month in 2022.
Major League Baseball (MLB) has a luxury tax called the "Competitive Balance Tax" (CBT). In place of a salary cap, the competitive balance tax regulates the total sum of money a given team can spend on their roster. Salary caps are common across professional sports leagues in the United States.
(Reuters) -Eli Lilly has sent cease-and-desist letters to U.S. healthcare providers in recent days to stop the promotion of the compounded versions of its drugs for weight loss and diabetes, as ...
Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN), will be reporting its first-quarter earnings on Tuesday. Wall Street expects 78 cents in EPS and $133.1 billion in revenues as the company reports after market hours.
Amazon beat Wall Street expectations for its second quarter 2022 earnings Thursday, reporting revenues of $121.2 billion, up 7 percent from a year earlier and well above the $119 billion consensus.
Amazon Watch is a nonprofit organization [ 1] founded in 1996, and based in Oakland, California, it works to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. It partners with indigenous and environmental organizations in Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and Brazil in campaigns for human rights, corporate ...
History of Amazon. Jeff Bezos, who founded Amazon in his Bellevue, Washington garage in 1994. Amazon is an American multinational technology company which focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, and digital streaming. It has been referred to as "one of the most influential economic and cultural forces in the world", [ 1] and is one of the world ...