tropic
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El Niño forms when winds blowing over the Pacific, from the Americas toward Asia, die down, allowing warm tropic water pushed up against Asia to slosh toward the Americas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
The country boasts having the highest number of hummingbirds and bats, attributed to its tropic climate and proximity to the equator.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2023
The engine that powers every tropic cyclone is convection: enormous volumes of moist, rising air create a vacuum at the surface that sucks in surrounding air as spiraling winds.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 1, 2023
Anterior pituitary hormones are sometimes referred to as tropic hormones, because they control the functioning of other organs.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Bright tropic sunlight and ocean salt breezes bathed him.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
A dangerous wave of wildfires is spreading across the tropics, and the Amazon rainforest is now facing a growing crisis.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
Somehow, a Gaboon viper — whose home is the tropics of central and western Africa — was on the loose Monday in a Southern California neighborhood, police say.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
The tropics receive far more energy from the sun than the poles.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
It took millions of years before primates colonized the tropics, the study shows.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 20, 2026
From the first days of contact, Europeans have perceived the Indians of the tropics as living in timeless stasis.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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