Earth is teeming with strange life forms—crabs with 12-foot-long legs scuttling off the Japanese coast, mushrooms that glow at night in eastern North America, butterflies that drink the tears of ...

PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 28 (UPI) -- NASA scientists say previous notions of how the sun's writhing interior moves from equator to pole and back again have been overturned. Data from an instrument on ...

For decades, scientists have observed a clear pattern across the natural world: biodiversity tends to be higher near the equator and lower toward the poles. Known as the latitudinal diversity gradient ...

The equator may sound like a foreign geography concept, but did you know it plays an outsized role in shaping Earth's weather, climate and even ocean behavior? "The equator is basically just an ...

The heat being captured by the increasing load of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is subsequently transferred into the oceans for storage. This process — global warming — ...

The tropical water at the equator is renowned for having the richest diversity of marine life on Earth, with vibrant coral reefs and large aggregations of tunas, sea turtles, manta rays and whale ...

leveling effect, all the high latitudes would be frozen solid while the tropics would be much warmer and wetter. during the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment. The new study was based on two data ...

With 50 years of exploration under its hulls, Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic is still setting the bar for expedition cruising. This article is brought to you by Lindblad Expeditions. When ...