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A reforestation assistant measures a newly-planted tree in a field damaged during illegal gold mining in Madre de Dios, Peru, on March 29, 2019. Since the project began three years ago, the team has planted more than 42 hectares (115 acres) with native seedlings, the largest reforestation effort in the Peruvian Amazon to date. The group is in discussion with Peru’s government to expand their efforts. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Difficult but rewarding work: Planting trees to aid climate

By CHRISTINA LARSON - Associated Press

A supporter of Operation Car Wash, rights, argues with supporters of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, during act in support of operation Car Wash and former judge Sergio Moro, in front of Supreme Court headquarters, in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. Brazil's Supreme Court will decide about a prisoner involved in the Car Wash operation, an anti-corruption investigation that managed to jail politicians and businessmen all over Latin America, that could open a door for others arrested during the operation, to appeal their sentences. The former president was jailed as a result of the Car Wash investigations. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

AP Explains: ‘Car Wash’ probe faces new challenges

By DIANE JEANTET - Associated Press

Supporters of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, shout slogans across the street from an act in support of operation Car Wash and former judge Sergio Moro, in front of Supreme Court headquarters in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. Brazil's Supreme Court will decide about a prisoner involved in the Car Wash operation, an anti-corruption investigation that managed to jail politicians and businessmen all over Latin America, that could open a door for others arrested during the operation, to appeal their sentences. The former president was jailed as a result of the Car Wash investigations. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil’s Lula da Silva rejects semi-open prison conditions

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Oil spills reach more than 100 regions of Brazil’s coast

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2019, file photo, Brazilian soldier puts out fires at the Nova Fronteira region in Novo Progresso, Brazil. The fires that swept parts of the Amazon this year added to global worries about a warming climate, as well as the sense of urgency at the Climate Action Summit at the United Nations. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

AP Explains: A look at Amazon fires as climate worries mount

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA - Associated Press

Surui, a Pataxo Indigenous chieftain, with his face painted red to represent fellow indigenous people that have been killed, speaks at the launch of a report on violence against indigenous peoples in Brazil, at the headquarters of the National Conference of Bishops in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019. A Brazilian Catholic Church agency says invasions of indigenous lands have jumped in the first nine months of President Jair Bolsonaro administration. The Missionary Indigenous Council said Tuesday that illegal miners, loggers and tappers of natural resources are involved in most of the invasions. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Invasions of indigenous land in Brazil rise under Bolsonaro

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro speaks at a ceremony to kickoff the Economic Freedom Project, at the Planalto Palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Friday, Sept. 20, 2019. This is Bolsonaro's first public event since his Sept. 8th surgery. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil’s president is heading to UN in a pugnacious mood

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Brazil's Minister of the Environment Ricardo Salles smiles for a photo during an interview with The Associated Press in Washington, Friday, Sept. 20, 2019. After facing international criticism for steeply rising rates of deforestation in the Amazon, Salles is visiting the U.S., France, Germany, and the United Kingdom to insist that there’s no big problem. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick

Brazil aims to deflect criticism over Amazon deforestation

By CHRISTINA LARSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019 file photo, Brazilian soccer player Ricardo Kaka smiles during a ceremony in Karachi, Pakistan. Kaka is encouraging compatriot Neymar stay at Paris Saint-Germain after a failed attempt to return to Barcelona. The world’s most expensive player was jeered on his return to the PSG side last weekend after sitting out the four league games as he pushed for a move back to Barcelona during the summer transfer window. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan, file)

AP Interview: Kaka urges Neymar to stay at PSG, lead CL push

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

Indigenous Tembe warrior Ronilson Tembe poses for a portrait on the Alto Rio Guama indigenous reserve as he waits for police to arrive with other members of his tribe in Para state, Brazil, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019. Tembe men sometimes daub themselves in traditional war paint and patrol the forest. They carry bows and arrows, but feel increasingly vulnerable as they brace for run-ins with illegal loggers. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)

Amazon tribe in Brazil patrols territory, braces for fight

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO - Associated Press

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Brazilian Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo sees Trump, Jair Bolsonaro forging ‘universal insurgency’

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Fires more numerous in Brazil’s Cerrado region than Amazon

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Brazil players listen to their national anthem before an international friendly soccer match against Peru on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Peru shocks Neymar, Brazil 1-0 on Abram’s 85th-minute header

By GREG BEACHAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan 1, 2019 file photo, flanked by first lady Michelle Bolsonaro, center, and his son Carlos Bolsonaro, right, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro waves as he rides in an open car after his swearing-in ceremony, in Brasilia, Brazil. Carlos Bolsonaro's tweet on Monday, Sept. 10, has caused an uproar saying democracy is slowing development in Latin America's biggest country. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)

In Brazil, president’s son questions democracy

By DIANE JEANTET - Associated Press

A herd of cattle stand in the midst of smoke from the fires at the Nova Fronteira region in Novo Progresso, Brazil, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro sent the military to help extinguish some fires. Last week, he passed a decree banning most fires for land-clearing for a period of 60 days, although he later limited the ban to the Amazon. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

H&M stops buying leather from Brazil over Amazon fires

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A demonstrator wearing a mask with the likeness of Brazil's Environment Minister Ricardo Salles brandishing a fake chainsaw, participates in a protest to defend of the Amazon, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019. The Brazilian Amazon saw almost 31 thousand fires in August, the highest for the month since 2010, according to Brazil's National Institute for Space Research. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

In Rio, protest in defense of the Amazon turns political

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Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro holds up a miniature of a KC-390 plane during the Brazilian Air Force delivery ceremony of the first military aircraft KC-390, at the air base in Anapolis, Brazil, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019. The aircraft is capable of transporting and launching cargo and troops, as well as a wide range of missions: air evacuation, search and rescue, firefighting, air refueling and humanitarian aid. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro praises 1973 military coup in Chile

By DIANE JEANTET - Associated Press

Israel sends firefighters to help Brazil battle Amazon fires

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Krimej indigenous Chief Kadjyre Kayapo, of the Kayapo indigenous community, looks out at a path created by loggers on the border between the Biological Reserve Serra do Cachimbo, front, and Menkragnotire indigenous lands, in Altamira, Para state, Brazil, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019. Much of the deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is done illegally -- land grabbers burn areas to clear land for agriculture and loggers encroach on national forests and indigenous reserves, and Kayapo says he does not want loggers and prospectors on his land. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Indigenous leader in Brazil’s Amazon tries to thwart loggers

By LEO CORREA - Associated Press

In this handout photo released by the government news agency Agencia Brasil, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, center, talks with the reporters outside the presidential official residence Alvorada Palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019. Bolsonaro on Tuesday said Brazil will only accept an offer of international aid to fight Amazon fires if French leader Emmanuel Macron retracts comments that he finds offensive. (Antonio Cruz/Agencia Brasil via AP)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro stops using France’s Bic pens amid clash

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