tropic

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

Higher-level consumers feed on the next lower tropic levels, and so on, up to the organisms at the top of the food chain: the apex consumers.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

The soot was gone, the oil in the waters, everything shone brightly under the blaze of morning tropic sun.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

This connection helps shape broad patterns of rainfall, temperature, and atmospheric circulation across the tropics.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

"More than 80 percent of insect species occur in the tropics, yet these are the very places where we have some of the biggest gaps in our knowledge," Dr. Chowdhury said.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026

No two El Niños are alike, but the disruption is felt most sharply in the tropics.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

Humpback whales in the Southern Hemisphere live in well-defined pods and usually follow the same migratory routes every year, travelling between feeding areas in cold water and breeding grounds in the tropics.

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

Similar questions arise for the decimation of many other native peoples by Eurasian germs, as well as for the decimation of would-be European conquistadores in the tropics of Africa and Asia.

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