The fierce winds of a hurricane are known as tropical cyclones in some parts of the world, so you might expect them to sweep across the entire tropics. But there's one area of the tropics where ...

Discovery of a pencil sketch at the National Library of Scotland prompts probe into the observatory's scientific legacy ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The location of the magnetic equator -- the constantly shifting imaginary line around the Earth where the ...

That hurricanes do not cross the equator is a claim that has spread online for years, and that’s because the concept on which this idea is based – the Coriolis Effect – is a complex one. Earth's ...

Explore the longest line of latitude on Earth, the Equator. Learn about its length, countries it crosses, climate, and ...