Tropics 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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Now most pollinators that we think about are insects, but actually in the tropics, many birds and butterflies pollinate.

And what we see is that for coastal tags, for those organisms that live near the shoreline, they're most diverse in the tropics.

Narrator: Some 1,500 miles south of the tropics, between Chile and Bolivia, the Andes completely change.

That took me to this wet and warm band of the tropics that encircles the Earth.

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