The fierce winds of a hurricane are known as tropical cyclones in some parts of the world, so you might expect them to sweep across the entire tropics. But there's one area of the tropics where ...

Until June we lived just south of the equator, in Tanzania. Every day of the year was around 80 degrees. The best way to get ...

The Congo River is the world's only major river to cross the Equator twice, a rare feat shaped by ancient geological forces.

Potential impactors are most likely to have low velocities and the highest likelihood of hitting Earth during the winter.

WHEN THE Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt arrived in South America in 1799, the colours astonished him. “Look at the blossoms, the birds,” he wrote. “Even the crayfish are blue and yellow.” ...

It seems early dinosaurs were not fond of the tropics. For the first 30 million years after dinosaurs appeared, they steered clear of the equator, a fact that has confounded paleontologists. Almost no ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. The publication contributed this article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The Earth’s magnetic field – known as the ...

Ecuador was the first country to enshrine the rights of nature in its c. On Nov. 16, voters decide if it should be re-written ...