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Brazil Amazon Dying Tribe
In this photo provided by Funai, Babawru Akuntsu, top, rests beside Akyp, her newborn son, at the Regional Hospital of Vilhena in Vilhena, Rondonia state, Brazil on Dec. 9, 2025, one day after the birth. (Altair Algayer/Funai via AP)

Amazon

Intrepid coverage of an unexpected birth that gives hope dwindling Amazon tribe can avoid extinction

MARCH 6, 2026

APTOPIX Colombia Amazon Dolphins Mercury
Scientists and veterinarians capture a pink river dolphin in the Amazon River to perform health checks in Puerto Narino, Colombia, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Amazon

Endangered pink river dolphins face a rising mercury threat in the Amazon

SEPT. 16, 2025

Brazil Lula Environment
FILE - A person walks on the BR-319 highway through smoke from a forest fire that reaches Careiro Castanho in Brazil's Amazonas state, Sept. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File)

Amazon

Ahead of UN climate talks, Brazil fast-tracks oil and highway projects that threaten the Amazon

JUNE 11, 2025

Climate Amazon Indigenous Reforestation
An Ashaninka Indigenous man applies face paint during the annual celebration recognizing the Ashaninka territory in the Apiwtxa village, Acre state, Brazil, Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Amazon

The Amazon’s Ashaninka tribe restored their territory. Now they aim to change the region

SEPT. 12, 2024

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Federal police officers arrive at the pier with human remains recovered during a search for Indigenous expert Bruno Araújo Pereira and freelance reporter Dom Phillips of Britain, in Atalaia do Norte, Amazonas state, western Brazil, June 15, 2022. A federal police investigator said a suspect confessed to fatally shooting Pereira and Phillips in a remote part of the Amazon and took officers to where the bodies were buried. (AP Photo / Edmar Barros)

Activists

AP ahead on disappearance, killings of British journalist and Indigenous expert in the Amazon

JUNE 24, 2022

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Amazon

Coverage of Floyd protests, Brazil’s virus toll, commands global attention

JUNE 5, 2020

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