equatorial

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Rainfall predictions in the equatorial Pacific show a lingering La Nina-like pattern, but in other parts of the world the signal is more mixed, it says.

From Barron's • Mar. 3, 2026

Stronger geomagnetic storms allow the lights to reach increasingly equatorial regions.

From Science Daily • Nov. 23, 2025

For example, the researchers predicted that heat waves lasting 35 days or longer in equatorial Africa will happen 60 times more often from 2020 to 2044 than they did from 1990 to 2014.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2025

The authors compared their work with imagery of Mars in the equatorial southern highlands, which is heavily cratered but also full of valley networks.

From Salon • May 16, 2025

The cows that the Bantu acquired from the tsetse-free Sahel zone failed to survive the Bantu expansion through the equatorial forest.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond