but the tropical zone also encompasses areas far from sandy shores, where rainforests and dense tree-covered mountains tantalize adventurers. The tropics run between the latitude lines from the ...

Scientists led by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute have discovered dead zones in a place where they least expected them: the Caribbean. More specifically, the tropics. Dead zones are ...

The first tropical cyclone of the season is set to form off Australia's north-west coast this week, forecasters say. A ...