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News Articles: amazon

Amazon packages move along a conveyor at an Amazon warehouse in Arizona.

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  • Business

Amazon reports its first unprofitable year since 2014

The biggest culprit was Amazon hefty investment in the electric automaker Rivian, whose value plummeted last year. Amazon also contends with the need to recalibrate after a pandemic-era upsurge.

February 02, 2023
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh
The end of AmazonSmile has some shoppers thinking about how to shop more ethically.

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  • Business

Looking for Amazon alternatives for ethical shopping? Here are some ideas

Amazon ended its charity donation program, AmazonSmile, after a series of other cost-cutting measures. Many shoppers expressed disapproval on social media and have been searching for alternatives.

January 23, 2023
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By:
  • Kaitlyn Radde
An Amazon fulfillment center is seen before sunrise on March 29, 2021, in Bessemer, Ala. Amazon announced it is ending its charity donation program, AmazonSmile.

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  • Business

Amazon ends its charity donation program AmazonSmile after other cost-cutting efforts

The company says the AmazonSmile program didn't have enough financial impact. But some charities say the support "made a huge difference," and shoppers have expressed disapproval on social media.

January 19, 2023
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By:
  • Kaitlyn Radde
Workers pack orders at an Amazon fulfillment center on January 20, 2015 in Tracy, California. OSHA cited Amazon after federal safety inspectors found ergonomic hazards at three Amazon warehouses.

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  • Business

Behind your speedy Amazon delivery are serious hazards for workers, government finds

The Labor Department has cited Amazon for failing to keep workers safe at three warehouses. Federal safety inspectors found workers at high risk of lower back injuries and musculoskeletal disorders.

January 18, 2023
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Amazon Labor Union President Chris Smalls speaks at a New York rally on Sept. 5. The company had fired Smalls from its Staten Island warehouse after he helped lead a pandemic-era walkout.

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  • Business

Amazon loses bid to overturn historic union win at Staten Island warehouse

Amazon should recognize its first unionized warehouse in the U.S., a federal labor official ruled.

January 12, 2023
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh and
  • Giulia Heyward
MacKenzie Scott, billionaire philanthropist. Last month she announced that her donations since 2019 have totaled more than $14 billion and helped fund around 1,600 nonprofits. But as much as the scale, it is her untraditional style of giving that is causing a stir.

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  • Global Health

MacKenzie Scott is shaking up philanthropy's traditions. Is that a good thing?

Donations often come with rigorous applications and reporting requirements. Billionaire MacKenzie Scott, who divorced Jeff Bezos in 2019 and vowed to give away most of her fortune, does it her way.

January 11, 2023
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By:
  • Andrew Connelly
Takakudjyti Kayapó, better known as Takakre, holds up a <em>matrinxã</em> fish. A community fishing monitor, he will measure and weigh the fish before recording its details in a spreadsheet to be sent to other members of the team studying how the mercury used in illegal mining is affecting fish populations in the Pixaxá River.

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  • Environment

Is there mercury in the fish we eat? Amazonians tap WhatsApp to find out

A community of Indigenous peoples worried that mercury used by gold miners was contaminating the fish they eat. So they created a DIY team to find out more.

December 31, 2022
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  • Jill Langlois
Workers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, take to the streets in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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  • Business

Union wins made big news this year. Here are 5 reasons why it's not the full story

Starbucks stores from coast to coast. An electric vehicle battery plant. The first Amazon warehouse in the U.S. All kinds of workplaces unionized in 2022, but winning elections is only the first step.

December 27, 2022
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu and
  • Alina Selyukh
An Amazon worker pulls a cart of packages for delivery in New York City in July. A promotion that enabled shoppers to tip workers last week maxed out in less than 48 hours.

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  • Business

Amazon launched a driver tipping promotion on the same day it got sued over tip fraud

An Amazon promotion that tipped delivery drivers $5 for every customer that sent a "thank you" message maxed out on the second day, raising questions about whether drivers deserve tips year-round.

December 14, 2022
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By:
  • Emily Olson
A riverside fisherman pulls a captured pirarucu into his canoe in Lake Amanã on Nov. 15.

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  • Latin America

Rare good news from the Amazon: Gigantic fish are thriving again

Conservationists say a sustainable fishing program has helped the recovery of the local pirarucu — which can be up to 10-feet long and weigh 450 pounds.

December 07, 2022
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By:
  • John Otis
Amazon said Wednesday it had begun layoffs in its Devices and Services division.

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  • Business

It's the end of the boom times in tech, as layoffs keep mounting

Amazon began layoffs, reportedly affecting as many as 10,000 employees. That follows job cuts at Meta, Twitter, and Stripe, with CEOs citing economic uncertainty and a slowdown in online ad buying.

November 16, 2022
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By:
  • Laurel Wamsley
An aerial view of the BR-319 highway where it meets the Igapó Açu River in São Sebastião, Brazil, on Sept. 24. The community is a stopping point for travelers and tourists.

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  • World

This Amazon road led to vast deforestation. Brazil's president wants it paved

President Jair Bolsonaro, who is running for reelection Sunday, has pledged to fully pave BR-319 and turn it into a kind of jungle expressway, raising alarm from environmental groups.

October 29, 2022
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By:
  • John Otis
The two candidates in Brazil's presidential elections campaign leading up to a runoff election. Left: President Jair Bolsonaro in Guarulhos on Saturday. Right: Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Rio de Janeiro State on Oct. 11.

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  • World

What to know about Brazil's election as Bolsonaro faces Lula, with major world impacts

Brazilians head to the polls Sunday to vote in a presidential election that is testing the world's fourth-largest democracy and could have a critical impact on the fight against climate change.

October 28, 2022
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By:
  • Carrie Kahn
Workers at the East Point Amazon warehouse protest for better working conditions and higher pay on October 19, 2022.

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  • Business

'No justice, no work': Amazon workers demand safety and fair pay

Workers from Amazon’s East Point warehouse, ATL 6, recently held a protest demanding higher wages and better working conditions.

October 20, 2022
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
Organizer Heather Goodall, who works at Amazon's warehouse near Albany, N.Y., leads supporters of the Amazon Labor Union in a march on Oct. 10.

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  • Business

Amazon workers vote against unionizing at upstate NY warehouse

This marks the second loss for the upstart Amazon Labor Union, which previously formed Amazon's first unionized U.S. warehouse in Staten Island. Amazon is still fighting that historic first union win.

October 18, 2022
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh and
  • Lucas Willard
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