tropics
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While agricultural expansion is still the leading driver of tree cover loss across the tropics, fires played a major role worldwide, accounting for 42 percent of the destruction.
From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026
BELÉM, Brazil—Holding a climate summit in the tropics would seem to be a good idea.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
"Enhanced air-sea coupling in a warming climate, combined with more variable weather in the tropics, leads to a transition in amplitude and regularity," he adds.
From Science Daily • Oct. 24, 2025
Nets along the east coast also routinely entangle humpback whales on their annual migration to and from the tropics.
From BBC • Oct. 3, 2025
The tropics will intoxicate you with the sweetness of frangipani flowers and lay you down with the sting of a viper, with hardly room to breathe in between.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Vocabulary lists containing tropics
Southeast Asia - Introductory
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Southeast Asia - Middle School
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Southeast Asia - High School
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