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Amazon fires fall sharply in September, spread elsewhere

By DIANE JEANTET - Associated Press

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

UN chief warns of a world divided between US and China

By EDITH M. LEDERER - 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

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

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

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

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

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

In this photo released by Brazil's Presidential press office, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro attends an Independence Day military parade accompanied by first lady Michelle Bolsonaro, in Brasilia, Brazil, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019. Bolsonaro has overseen Brazil’s independence day celebrations with a renewed assertion of his country’s sovereignty over the Amazon. (Marcos Correa/Brazil's Presidential Press Office via AP)

Brazil’s president again stresses sovereignty over Amazon

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In this Sept. 3, 2019 photo, indigenous villagers listen to speakers during a meeting of Tembé tribes at the Tekohaw indigenous reserve, Para state, Brazil. Some of the men wore a type of red face paint that signified they were ready for war. Recent clashes saw the Tembe burning the trucks and equipment of illegal loggers on their territory, which is located in a Brazilian state plagued by thousands of fires burning on cleared jungle lands. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

In the Amazon, indigenous debate how to save their lands

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO - Associated Press

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

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)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro wants to discuss Amazon fires at UN

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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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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

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

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

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

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

Associated Press

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