tropical
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A severe tropical storm moved towards Tokyo on Wednesday, with forecasters warning of floods after torrential rain battered swathes of the country and prompted calls to evacuate for hundreds of thousands of people.
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
Few countries are more exposed to climate change than Tuvalu, a chain of coral atolls reckoning with acidifying oceans, tropical disease and rising seas.
From Barron's • May 28, 2026
El Niño occurs every few years when trade winds of the tropical Pacific weaken and the ocean warms up.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
Not the tropical kind you may be thinking of, but an ancient and precious woodland known as a temperate rainforest.
From BBC • May 25, 2026
Brisk dashing about didn’t work well in the muggy tropical heat.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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