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 ...

There are some strange doings in Ecuador. They built a monument to the equator on the equator, only they put it in the wrong place. It's a few hundred feet south of the actual equator. No one seems to ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...