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 ...

Africa's second-longest river, the Congo, is a global marvel, uniquely crossing the Equator twice. This immense waterway, the ...

A boundary of air, wrapped like a belt around the earth's equator, is keeping the polluted atmosphere of the Northern Hemisphere separate from the relatively pristine south, say UK researchers. The ...

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.” ...

Figure 1: Annual-mean precipitation, surface winds, and atmospheric energy balance. Figure 5: Atmospheric meridional energy flux and energy flux equator. However, equation (2) is merely an energy ...

After years living in Ecuador, I thought it was about time I visited the equator - but it proved more difficult than I thought. The reason being that in Ecuador there are several places that claim to ...

The “Emerald of the Equator” (Zamrud Khatulistiwa) or Indonesia is home to an estimated 252 million people living on 17,000 islands. It is famous for its rich history and hundreds of unique cultures ...

This Ecuador motorcycle day starts in Quito and rides out to Otavalo for the largest indigenous market in South America, then continues to the Equator monument where finally crossing that line feels ...

Federal scientists from the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) confirmed that the La Niña weather pattern, which started in ...

The annual Geminid meteor shower is set to peak this weekend, offering stargazers a chance to catch what is often one of the ...