Road safety issues have been in the spotlight in India after business tycoon Cyrus Mistry died in a car crash.

Though the sale of the metal clips is not illegal, such devices and broader road safety issues have come under closer scrutiny after Indian tycoon Cyrus Mistry died in a car crash.

Government satellite data shows 5,474 sq km were cleared in the region from January to July, up 7.3% from the same period of last year, equal to an area seven times the size of New York City.

Three of the newly arrested men were involved in concealing the bodies of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, the police say.

The Amazon, the world's largest rainforest, contains vast amounts of carbon, which is released as trees are destroyed, warming the atmosphere and driving climate change.

The world's largest tropical rainforest lost 3,750 sq km of jungle since the beginning of the year, the worst numbers for that period since record-keeping began in 2016.

Police have have said earlier this month that their investigation suggested that more individuals were involved beyond Costa but that they were likely to have acted alone, with no bosses behind the crime.

More than 1,000 sq km of the world's biggest rainforest was destroyed, nearly double the previous high.

Sales at the online retail colossus were in line with analyst expectations, but chief executive Andy Jassy warned of testing times in the months ahead.

Curbing rising Amazon deforestation is vital to preventing runaway climate change impacts because of the vast amount of planet-heating carbon dioxide absorbed by the forest's trees.

Amazon says the outage was related to network devices and linked to application programming interface, or API, which is a set of protocols for building and integrating application software.

Brazil's space research agency recorded 13,235 sq km of deforestation, an area nearly 17 times the size of New York City.