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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.
Since I'm already in the tropics, I chose "Tropical rainforest."
He's born in Cameroon, which is smack in the middle of my tropics map, and more specifically his skeleton wound up in the Smithsonian museum getting picked clean by beetles.
Bats in the tropics are major pollinators of many plants.
That's as bizarre as finding that the Antarctic on the Earth is hotter than the tropics.
When I was a young man, I spent six years of wild adventure in the tropics working as an investigative journalist in some of the most bewitching parts of the world.
But say you live in the tropics and you walk outside your hut one day and you leave some footprints in the soft dirt around your home.
A third and perhaps most exciting way of using these drones is to fly them to a really remote, never-explored-before rainforest somewhere hidden in the tropics, and parachute down a tiny spy microphone that would allow us to eavesdrop on the calls of mammals, birds, amphibians, the Yeti, the Sasquatch, Bigfoot, whatever.
Operating costs are low in the tropics, because it's very humid, and it's easy for the ants to be outside walking around.
But the ants are so abundant and diverse in the tropics that there's a lot of competition.
Three quarters of that is in the temperate zone, and just one quarter is in the tropics, but this one quarter, one billion hectares, holds most of the biodiversity, and very importantly, 50 percent of the living biomass, the carbon.
So think of this: In 100 years, we lost the same amount of forest in the tropics that we lost in 2,000 years in temperate forests.
It can get hot in the tropics, so we make big curving roofs to catch the breezes.
In the tropics, the sun is the most important thing to pay attention to, and, in fact, it is seeking protection from the sun.
Countries in the tropics are the keenest consumers, because culturally, it's acceptable.
Right now we're seeing microbial diseases from the tropics spread to the higher latitudes; the transportation revolution has had a lot to do with this.
These layers can get mixed up by vertical upwelling currents or horizontal currents, which are key in transporting heat from the tropics to the poles.
Protecting currently degraded land in the tropics and allowing natural regeneration to occur is the number five solution to reversing global warming.
On large scales, clouds seem to be moving from the tropics toward the poles.
And this matters, because if your job is to block incoming sunlight, you are going to be much more effective in the tropics under that intense tropical sun than you are in higher latitudes.
Energy from the sun is free, so they bask in the sun like lizards and wear an unusually thick coat for the tropics to keep that heat in.
We're designing it for the tropics, so all of the roofs are maximized to harvest solar power and to shade from the sun.
And even if the first one is designed for the tropics, we also imagine that the architecture can adapt to any culture, so imagine, like, a Middle Eastern floating city or Southeast Asian floating city or maybe a Scandinavian floating city one day.
So this is the combination where we have all this genetic potential in the tropics, which is still unexploited, and doing it in combination with technology.
In the tropics, raindrops are not formed from ice crystals, which is the case in the temperate zones, you need the trees with [unclear], chemicals that come out of the leaves of the trees that initiate the raindrops.
One thing I want to point out is that underneath these live epiphytes, as they die and decompose, they actually construct an arboreal soil, both in the temperate zone and in the tropics.
Our tropics are home to most of the species in our ocean, most of the people whose existence depends on our seas.
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