tropics
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This connection helps shape broad patterns of rainfall, temperature, and atmospheric circulation across the tropics.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 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
"The Northern Lights may be distant from the tropics, but the horizons we seek are increasingly one and the same," Indian lawmaker Shashi Tharoor wrote, in the Indian Express daily.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
Furthermore, once malaria and yellow fever did become transmitted to the Americas by European ship traffic, they emerged as the major impediment to colonization of the New World tropics as well.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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