Everything to grab from Prime Gaming, April 4th edition for Steam Deck / Linux

Here's the up to date list of games available on Amazon Prime Gaming for April 4th, and what compatibility you can expect for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck.

Everything to grab from Prime Gaming, March 28th edition for Steam Deck / Linux

Here's the up to date list of games available on Amazon Prime Gaming for March 28th, and what compatibility you can expect for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck.

Amazon Luna and Electronic Arts sign a multi-year deal, as Luna expands into more countries

Seems like Amazon are not ready to give up on their cloud gaming service Luna just yet, with it expanding into more countries and getting a big new deal going.

Land distribution in the Pan Amazon is tainted by corruption

The distribution of public land has, at one time or another, been official government policy in almost every Amazonian jurisdiction.

Everything to grab from Prime Gaming, March 14th edition for Steam Deck / Linux

Here's the up to date list of games available on Amazon Prime Gaming for March 14th, and what compatibility you can expect for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck. An easy way to build up your gaming collection.

Amazon GameLift Streams allows devs to run their own streaming platform - supports Linux and Proton runtimes

Amazon recently announced their new GameLift Streams service, allowing game developers to spin up their own game streaming solutions.

Everything to grab from Prime Gaming, March 7th edition for Steam Deck / Linux

Here's the up to date list of games available on Amazon Prime Gaming for March 7th, and what compatibility you can expect for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck. It's a fresh month, so we've got some new games coming.

Heroic Games Launcher v2.16 released with improved Steam Deck / Linux game compatibility

Heroic Games Launcher continues to evolve into an even more impressive cross-platform game launcher for GOG, Epic Games, Amazon Prime and more with v2.16 bringing some great enhancements.

Everything to grab from Prime Gaming, February 28th edition for Steam Deck / Linux

Here's the up to date list of games available on Amazon Prime Gaming for February 28th, and what compatibility you can expect for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck.

Amazon's previous VP of Prime Gaming said they "tried everything" to disrupt Steam

Everything except making a store people wanted to use? Ethan Evans, who was previously Vice President of Prime Gaming at Amazon, has a short retrospective of trying to take on Steam.

Channel-billed Toucan Ramphastos vitellinus

Deep in the heart of the #Amazon rainforest, a flash of vibrant colour moves between the towering canopy trees. The Channel-billed #Toucan Ramphastos vitellinus is a striking bird endemic to #Colom…

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Games to claim from Prime Gaming, Jan 24 edition round-up for SteamOS Linux and Steam Deck

Here's the up to date list of games available on Amazon Prime Gaming for January 24th, and what compatibility you can expect for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck.

The Amazon rainforest and five reasons for hope

Slowing deforestation in Brazil and a vote against oil drilling in Ecuador offer slivers of hope for a denuded Amazon

How the COPs and carbon markets are fueling more fires in the Amazon | World Rainforest Movement

On November 22, the UN Climate Change Conference COP29 ended in Baku, Azerbaijan. At one of its sessions, Brazilian authorities spoke about the next one, COP30, to be held in the Amazon region.

The year in tropical rainforests: 2024

The year 2024 saw significant developments in tropical rainforest conservation, deforestation, and degradation.

Amazon Clarion Call: Pandemics Emerging in the Rainforest

The Amazon’s diverse ecosystem is under threat from rampant deforestation, degradation, a biodiversity crisis, and the climate crisis – jeopardising its ability to act as a carbon sink. This degrad…

Deforestation around Mennonite colonies continues in Peruvian Amazon: Report - Conservation news

Satellite data and imagery confirm ongoing deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon around colonies of Mennonites, a group of highly conservative Christian communities.

Amazon exec tells employees to work elsewhere if they dislike RTO policy

Using RTO to push quitting could result in an “array of legal consequences.”…

An Amazon free from oil and gas

Out of the more than $20 billion invested, 46% of all direct financing for oil and gas exploration in the Amazon comes from just six banks: Citibank, JPMorgan Chase, Itaú Unibanco, Santander, Bank of America, and HSBC.

Bird species are facing extinction hundreds of times faster than previously thought

Extinction, or the disappearance of an entire species, is commonplace. Yet evidence suggests that the number of bird species going extinct, and the rate at which they are disappearing, is increasin…

An Amazon free from oil and gas

Out of the more than $20 billion invested, 46% of all direct financing for oil and gas exploration in the Amazon comes from just six banks: Citibank, JPMorgan Chase, Itaú Unibanco, Santander, Bank of America, and HSBC.

Deforestation in Colombia falls to lowest level in 23 years

Government reports 36% decrease, with most gains in Amazon forest where conservation efforts are focused

Amazon deforestation threatens one of Brazil’s key pollinators, study shows

With their metallic-blue-and-green bodies and iridescent wings, orchid bees aren’t just charismatic bugs.

Colombian Amazon deforestation surges as armed groups tighten grip

Country had previously turned the tide on deforestation but armed rebels have revoked ban

Deforestation harms biodiversity of the Amazon's perfume-loving orchid bees

A survey of orchid bees in the Brazilian Amazon, carried out in the 1990s, is shedding new light the impact of deforestation on the scent-collecting pollinators, which some view as bellwethers of biodiversity in the neotropics.

Amazon Turkers Who Train AI Say They’re Locked Out of Their Work and Money

Report shows Peru failed to stop Amazon deforestation for palm oil and cacao

Several palm oil and cacao companies operating in the Peruvian Amazon have systematically contributed to clearing at least 13,000 hectares (32,000 acres) between 2012 and 2021 in the country’s most forest-rich regions of Loreto and Ucayali, shows a n…

Oil palm in the Pan Amazon

Oil palm is highly suited to cultivation in the ecological and climatic conditions of the tropics and its cultivation in South America has expanded steadily over the last three decades.

Amazon River Dolphin Inia geoffrensis

The Amazon River dolphins, also known as the Boto Dolphins or Amazon Pink River Dolphins are playful, curious and intelligent mammals, the largest river dolphin species in the world. Known for thei…

Brown Howler Monkey Alouatta guariba

Despite their namesake, Brown Howlers come in a variety of colours from buff to reddish orange and brown-black. They are well known for their expressive and loud howling which can be heard from up …

Amazon Games support is coming soon to Heroic Games Launcher

The Heroic Games Launcher currently supports GOG, Epic Games and manual side-loading but Amazon Games support is also being worked on.

Dwindling tropical rainforests mean lost medicines yet to be discovered in their plants

About 80% of the world population relies on compounds derived from plants for medicines to treat various ailments, such as malaria and cancer, and to suppress pain. Our future medicines are likely …