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Fire consumes the Amazon rainforest in Altamira, Brazil, on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019. Fires across the Brazilian Amazon have sparked an international outcry for preservation of the world's largest rainforest. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Bolsonaro limits ban on fires in Brazil to Amazon only

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A member of Brazil's 17th brigade of jungle infantry fills up buckets with water at a property owned by the family of Eric Raauwendaal, left, at Jacunda National Forest, in the Amazonian state of Rondonia, Brazil, Thursday, August 29, 2019. A record number of fires in the Amazon has prompted an environmental crisis and a global outcry. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)

Brazil says it is successfully controlling fires in Amazon

By LUIS ALONSO LUGO and ANNA JEAN KAISER - Associated Press

Nordea puts Brazil bonds in ‘quarantine’ over Amazon fires

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Smoke rises from a rainforest in Altamira, Para state, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Wednesday that Latin America's Amazon countries will meet in September to discuss both protecting and developing the rainforest region, which has been hit by weeks of devastating fires.(AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Timberland owner stops buying leather from Brazil

By JOSEPH PISANI - Associated Press

In this image released Thursday Aug. 29, 2019, by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, showing part of a time-lapse series, that they identify as carbon monoxide associated with fires from the Amazon region in Brazil from Aug. 8-22, 2019. The image was made with data collected from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) on NASA's Aqua satellite. (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory via AP)

Brazil bans most burning for 60 days to curb Amazon fires

By Anna Jean Kaiser - Associated Press

Land smolders during a forest fire in Altamira in Brazil's Amazon, Monday, Aug. 26, 2019. The fire is very close to Kayapo indigenous land located on the Bau indigenous reserve. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Bolsonaro says Amazon nations should decide region’s future

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO and CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA - Associated Press

Firefighters work to put out fires along the road to Jacunda National Forest, near the city of Porto Velho in the Vila Nova Samuel region that is part of Brazil's Amazon, Monday, Aug. 26, 2019. The Group of Seven nations on Monday pledged tens of millions of dollars to help Amazon countries fight raging wildfires, even as Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro accused rich countries of treating the region like a &quot;colony.&quot; (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Bolsonaro demands Macron apology before accepting $40M in Amazon wildfire aid

By Bailey Vogt - The Washington Times

Firefighters work to put out fires along the road to Jacunda National Forest, near the city of Porto Velho in the Vila Nova Samuel region that is part of Brazil's Amazon, Monday, Aug. 26, 2019. The Group of Seven nations on Monday pledged tens of millions of dollars to help Amazon countries fight raging wildfires, even as Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro accused rich countries of treating the region like a &quot;colony.&quot; (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

The Latest: Brazil leader criticizes indigenous reserves

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Amid smoke from forest fires, cattle graze on a farm along the road to Jacunda National Forest, near the city of Porto Velho in the Vila Nova Samuel region which is part of Brazil's Amazon, Monday, Aug. 26, 2019. The Group of Seven nations on Monday pledged tens of millions of dollars to help Amazon countries fight raging wildfires, even as Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro accused rich countries of treating the region like a &quot;colony.&quot; (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Respiratory ailments hit in Amazon as Brazil spurns G-7 aid

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO and CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA - Associated Press

Brazils President Jair Bolsonaro makes a signal with his hand during a military ceremony for the Day of the Soldier, at Army Headquarters in Brasilia, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 23, 2019. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro says he's leaning toward sending the army to help fight Amazon fires that have alarmed people across the globe. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Jair Bolsonaro, ‘Trump of the Tropics,’ tests Brazilians’ patience as problems persist

By Frederic Puglie - Special to The Washington Times

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin walks to a working breakfast with President Donald Trump and Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the Hotel du Palais on the sidelines of the G-7 summit in Biarritz, France, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019. (Erin Schaff, The New York Times, Pool)

The Latest: Macron calls Amazon an issue for whole planet

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Trees are destroyed after a fire in the Alvorada da Amazonia region in Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019. The country's satellite monitoring agency has recorded more than 41,000 fires in the Amazon region so far this year, with more than half of those coming in August alone. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

G-7 nations pledge $40 million to fight Amazon fires

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO and CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA - Associated Press

A fire burns trees and brush along the road to Jacunda National Forest, near the city of Porto Velho in the Vila Nova Samuel region which is part of Brazil's Amazon, Monday, Aug. 26, 2019. The Group of Seven nations on Monday pledged tens of millions of dollars to help Amazon countries fight raging wildfires, even as Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro accused rich countries of treating the region like a "colony." (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Amazon fires ‘normal agriculture’ despite international outrage

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this photo released by Brazil Ministry of Defense, a C-130 Hercules aircraft dumps water to fight fires burning in the Amazon rainforest, in Brazil, Saturday, Aug, 24, 2019. Backed by military aircraft, Brazilian troops on Saturday were deploying in the Amazon to fight fires that have swept the region and prompted anti-government protests as well as an international outcry. (Brazil Ministry of Defense via AP)

Pope, urging prayers, says Amazon forest vital for our Earth

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Neri dos Santos Silva, center, watches an encroaching fire threat after digging trenches to keep the flames from spreading to the farm he works on, in the Nova Santa Helena municipality, in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 23, 2019. Under increasing international pressure to contain fires sweeping parts of the Amazon, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday authorized use of the military to battle the massive blazes. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Brazilian troops begin deploying to fight Amazon fires

By MARCELO SILVA de SOUSA - Associated Press

Fire consumes an area near Porto Velho, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 23, 2019. Brazilian state experts have reported a record of nearly 77,000 wildfires across the country so far this year, up 85% over the same period in 2018. Brazil contains about 60% of the Amazon rainforest, whose degradation could have severe consequences for global climate and rainfall. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

AP Explains: The causes and risks of the Amazon fires

By MARCELO de SOUZA - Associated Press

This satellite image provided by NASA shows the fires in Brazil on Aug. 20, 2019. As fires raged in the Amazon rainforest, the Brazilian government on Thursday denounced international critics who say President Jair Bolsonaro is not doing. (NASA via AP)

Bolsonaro to reveal plans for fighting Amazon fires

By Victor Caivano - Associated Press

This Aug. 15, 2019 satellite image from Maxar Technologies shows closeup view of a fire southwest of Porto Velho Brazil. Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, a federal agency monitoring deforestation and wildfires, said the country has seen a record number of wildfires this year as of Tuesday, Aug. 20. (Satellite image &#169;2019 Maxar Technologies via AP)

Emmanuel Macron angers Jair Bolsonaro by calling Amazon wildfires an ‘international crisis’

By Bailey Vogt - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 20, 2019, drone photo released by the Corpo de Bombeiros de Mato Grosso, brush fires burn in Guaranta do Norte municipality, Mato Grosso state, Brazil. Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, a federal agency monitoring deforestation and wildfires, said the country has seen a record number of wildfires this year. (Corpo de Bombeiros de Mato Grosso via AP)

Global worry over Amazon fires escalates; Bolsonaro defiant

By Marcelo Silva de Sousa - Associated Press

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro holds a press conference on deforestation in the Amazon at the Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. Bolsonaro is threatening to dismiss officers at the agency that monitors deforestation in the Amazon over its publication of data he disagrees with. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres) ** FILE **

Jair Bolsonaro claims NGOs could be setting Amazon fires

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