Tropical in example sentence

These include: susceptibility to infectious diseases such as malaria, transmitted by insects that thrive in the tropics; poor soils; vulnerability to extreme natural disasters such as tropical cyclones (of the kind that killed around 11,000 people in Central America); and low agricultural productivity due to the effects of excessive heat on plant growth, and other causes.

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And many of the tropical flowers are red, and that's because butterflies and birds see similarly to us, we think, and can see the color red very well.

Instead, we find more life and diversity and density than in the tropical rainforest.

If you look at carbon dioxide from burning tropical rainforest, or methane coming from cows and rice, or nitrous oxide from too many fertilizers, it turns out agriculture is 30 percent of the greenhouse gases going into the atmosphere from human activity.

Most agricultural emissions come from tropical deforestation, methane from animals and rice fields, and nitrous oxide from over-fertilizing.

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