Tropics

There are only two seasons in the tropics.

Can orange trees grow in the tropics?

The open doors of the greenhouse let in the smells of the greenery and the scents of the tropics.

On certain large planets, whose climates, owing to the proximity of a violent sun, were very much hotter than our tropics, we sometimes found an intelligent fish-like race. It was bewildering to us to discover that a submarine world could rise to mentality of human rank, and to that drama of the spirit, which we had now so often encountered.

I remember my last days in the tropics, when I ate shrimp crackers and an elder said that I could not get those delicacies in the northern country to which I was going.

In the tropics, there are only two seasons.

Growing up in the Philippines in the 1970s, I habitually watched the television show Sesame Street, and more than one episode mentioned "nectarines," which were fruits unknown to me in the tropics then.

If scientists can find a way to spread these bacteria in the wild, they could help end malaria’s deadly reign in the tropics.

Roughly 253 scientists from 21 countries worked for five years to decipher the genetic blueprints of the single-cell parasites that cause sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and Chagas disease. Experts say the disease-causing protozoa, which affect 500 million people in the tropics and sub-tropics at any one time, look identical under the microscope, but are spread by different flying insects.

Mangrove trees grow in shallow coastal and estuarial waters in the tropics — in Southeast Asia, Africa and the Americas. They provide breeding grounds for many marine species, and help prevent soil erosion by protecting land from strong waves and reducing flood damage.