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How to use the word tropics in a Sentence?

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El Niño tends to have its strongest impacts on hurricanes forming in the deep tropics, so, Caribbean storms tend to really get knocked down in El Niño years, due to increases in vertical wind shear.

Phil Klotzbach

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Shut it down completely and you get this reduction of rainfall in one band south of the equator and an increase in the band to the north. So we could see impacts on rainfall in the tropics.

Matthew England

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If we go to 3, 4 degrees of global average warming which is tragically the trajectory we are currently on, then there won't be much left of The Great Barrier Reef or any other coral reefs throughout the tropics.

Terry Hughes

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The tropics host incredible shark and ray diversity, but too many of these inherently vulnerable species have been heavily fished for more than a century by a wide range of fisheries that remain poorly managed, despite countless commitments to improve, as a result, we fear we will soon confirm that one or more of these species has been driven to extinction from overfishing, a deeply troubling first for marine fishes. We will work to make this study a turning point in efforts to prevent any more irreversible losses and secure long-term sustainability.

Colin Simpfendorfer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Climate change impacts are worse in the equatorial tropics -- Australasia -- because of the unique climate here. It is the most atmospherically dynamic place on Earth. Also, the tropics can experience up to three times the temperature increases under climate change compared to other parts of the world.

Jill Huntley

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In Russia, the speed of global warming is 2.5 times higher than the global average, at higher latitudes, it happens more quickly than the tropics.

Mikhail Lokoshenko

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This is a big problem because the majority of plant and animal species occur in the tropics.

Cristian Romn-Palacios

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

In the tropics a big consequence of global warming is increasing intensity (of extreme events) and longer dry or rainy periods.

Environment Minister Ricardo Lozano

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Every time you had an ice age, you had an increased suture zone length in the tropics.

Oliver Jagoutz

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

There is a severe food security risk in the tropics, no species are already activated to temperatures warmer than the tropics, so you could see a real crash in food fish populations. And these are places where coastal nations often have no other protein in the diet other than the fish from coral reefs.

Stephen Simpson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

However, it's still the tropics, so if rainy evenings aren't your thing then avoid January to April and October to November.

Neil James

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Melioidosis is a great mimicker of other diseases and you need a good microbiology laboratory for bacterial culture and identification to make an accurate diagnosis, it especially affects the rural poor in the tropics, who often do not have access to microbiology labs, which means that it has been greatly under-estimated as an important public health problem across the world.

Direk Limmathurotsakul

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Being in the tropics with cyclones and the rest adds complexity, but we still need to do more.

Roger Shaw

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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