Amazon Prime Now Offers a 'Personal Shopper' to Curate Your Closet for Just $4.99 a Month

Photo: amazon Amazon already stocks your kitchen pantry (what’s better than a bulk paper towel delivery?). Now it’s time to bring that same convenience to your closet. If you’re not already a Prime member, Amazon Fashion’s newest shopping platform might be the thing that finally convinces you to hit the subscribe button. For $4.99 a month, users can choose up to eight items at a time to be delivered for at-home try on.

Amazon Pulls Christmas Ornaments Featuring Images of Auschwitz Concentration Camp After Backlash

Photo: Mark Makela/Getty Images Amazon has taken down several listings from its website that featured images of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp printed on Christmas ornaments and bottle openers. The e-commerce giant pulled the products after receiving backlash from the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, which called the items “disturbing and disrespectful.” “Selling ‘Christmas ornaments’ with images of Auschwitz does not seem appropriate,” the Polish museum wrote on Twitter. “Auschwitz on a bottle opener is rather disturbing and disrespectful.

Amazon Rainforest Fires Threaten Climate Change Efforts — What's at Stake for the Planet

As fires continue toburn the Amazon rainforest at a record level, many are warning about the devastating effects the blazes can have on the environment, and humans around the globe. The Amazon, known as “the planet’s lungs,” produces 20 percent of Earth’s oxygen and is a key factor in combating climate change, according toCNN. Like all plants, the Amazon rainforest is able to release oxygen into the air through the process of photosynthesis, which occurs as plants use sunlight to remove carbon dioxide from the air.

Amazon Rainforest, 'The Planet's Lungs,' Approaches an Alarming 'Tipping Point': Study

More than 75 percent of the Amazon rainforest might be approaching a “tipping point” of dieback. “Deforestation and climate change are likely to be the main drivers of this decline,” said Niklas Boers, a professor at Technical University of Munich and one of the study’s authors, according topress releasefrom the University of Exeter. “Resilience is being lost faster in parts of the rainforest that are closer to human activity, as well as those with less rainfall.

Amazon Rainforest, Known as 'The Planet's Lungs,' Has Been Burning at a Record Rate for Weeks

Fires in the Amazon rainforest from space.Photo: NASA Fires have been raging at a record rate in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest for weeks, threatening wildlife and Earth’s oxygen in a disaster that activists say could drive further climate change. There have been 72,843 fires in Brazil this year (with more than half in its Amazon region), and satellite images have spotted 9,507 new forest fires in the county — mostly in the Amazon basin — since Thursday, accordingto CNNandReuters, both citing Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE).