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I've been privileged to spend my career catalyzing and connecting these movements throughout the tropics, and I've learned that as conservationists, our goal must be to win at scale, not just to lose more slowly.
And it's the best thing and the most nutritious and refreshing thing you can drink on a hot day in the tropics, so I said sure.
It lives throughout the tropics, the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia, into the Pacific.
And this is the tropics.
Imagine juggling a snowball across the tropics.
The 109th Air National Guard flew the most recent shipment of ice back to the coast of Antarctica, where it was boarded onto a freighter, shipped across the tropics to California, unloaded, put on a truck, driven across the desert to the National Ice Core Laboratory in Denver, Colorado, where, as we speak, scientists are now slicing this material up for samples, for analysis, to be distributed to the laboratories around the country and in Europe.
Salmon sharks go down to the tropics to pup and come into Monterey.
How could any producer/network executive/director let a crew stick the skeeziest fakest plastic palm trees in film history in the sands of a wintry Canadian beach and try to fob it off on us as the tropics?
Katherine Houghton is a well to do American living in the tropics with her wealthy husband.
I remembered only the end and figured if global warming was to happen, Baltic would become the new tropics.
The effects can be seen from the tropics to the poles, from small islands to large continents, and from the wealthiest countries to the poorest.
Moreover, fundamental threats to the food and water supply – especially food in the tropics and water in the subtropics – are coming if we continue business as usual.
have shown that much of the problem of global poverty can be traced to severe geographical problems of the poorer countries, such as endemic diseases that are prevalent in the tropics, such as malaria, schistosomiasis, and hookworm.
Dengue fever is a leading cause of illness and death in the tropics and subtropics, with as many as 100 million people infected each year.
For example, many of the poorest countries are in the tropics, and problems of tropical health (such as malaria) and tropical agriculture, are generally ignored by rich-country scientists.
Nevertheless, regional discrepancies remain massive: cows in the Netherlands can produce roughly 9,000 liters of milk annually, while Zebu cattle in the tropics produce only about 300 liters.
$ heavy energy use in the rich economies is indeed gradually warming the earth;$ it is poor countries -- mainly in the tropics -- rather than the rich countries -- mainly in the temperate economies -- who are likely to suffer the most severe damage.
Today it afflicts an estimated 50-100 million people in the tropics and subtropics.
Since 1970, the elevation at which temperatures are always below freezing has ascended almost 500 feet in the tropics.
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.
Production will move to new varieties and away from the tropics, implying even higher yields for developed countries, but slower growth in yields for developing countries.
The Isiboro-Sécure Park was created in 1965 in order to protect the area against the threat represented by the highway that was then being built to join the Andes region with the Bolivian tropics.
Over the next few decades, the brunt of the climate disaster will be felt by countries in or near the tropics that are not rich enough to undertake sufficient adaptation measures.
Given Zimbabwe’s location in the tropics, which makes it particularly vulnerable to shifting rainfall patterns, this has contributed to recurrent droughts – a major driver of rising food insecurity.
And the mystery only deepens when we come to viruses that are seasonal in temperate climates and maintain a near-constant (albeit lower) infection rate in the tropics.
There is good reason why some in the media have dubbed Bolsonaro, elected in late 2018, “the Trump of the tropics.”
Countries in or near the tropics are also disproportionately affected by the floods, droughts, and hurricanes associated with climate change, and by the warming temperatures expected to encourage more pandemics in the future.
Investments to protect and restore the rich biodiversity of fragile ecosystems primarily located in the tropics would also yield high returns.
Of course, MMTers dismiss these cases as exotic examples from the dizzy tropics.
Violence of temper approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been intensified by his long residence in the tropics.
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