As part of its epic 10-part journey across the American supercontinent, The Americas takes viewers into the heart of the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest and a hotbed of biodiversity. It covers ...

Ants get no respect. They are kicked in corners, whacked off cabinets, squashed by shoe leather and vaporized by chemicals. A five-foot-long model of an Amazonian ant has been made expressly for the ...

Quick Take A recent study suggests many Amazon insects already live near their upper heat tolerance, meaning rising temperatures could threaten up to half of species in some regions by the end of the ...