Call it a Fisher's Island of the tropics, with a Louis Vuitton store on Main Street.
In 21 countries, mainly in the tropics, more than 90% of protected areas were vulnerable.
So far, efforts to increase food production in the tropics have been less than successful.
In part, that is because both biodiversity and poverty are concentrated in the tropics.
Coral reefs exist in over 50 countries and they stretch across much of the tropics and subtropics.
They should know that the only place where planting trees prevents global warming is in the tropics.
They are colonies of tiny living organisms, most commonly found in warm shallow waters in the tropics.
It shows a near 30% drop in biodiversity since 1970, and an even faster decline in the tropics of 60%.
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Glaciers of the inner and outer tropics : a different behaviour but a common response to climatic forcing, .
But this is not an option for tests for those diseases that afflict only those in the tropics.
In the tropics, they take up water from the deep soil and release it as vapor in the air.
Although many of his skyscrapers are in the tropics, most don't require air-conditioning.
One advertiser was most concerned that I might have forgotten to buy a souvenir of my vacation in the tropics.
Nicknamed the "Donald Trump of the Tropics" in the Miami press, Perez started his career as a developer in low-income housing.
But she knew that her contact was likely to be discombobulated today, having just returned from two weeks in the tropics.
The needle allowed humans to clothe themselves, protecting themselves against cold weather and opening regions outside of the tropics to human settlement.
Crop failures would not be limited to the tropics, the scientists concluded.
Fast-growing crops would be planted in the tropics, where sunlight is abundant.
The effect in the tropics should be even greater due to the inefficient nature of markets for tropical forests and forest products.
The new second floor Tropics Lounge overlooks the bar and water.
The reason for this is the paucity of data over the tropics, where many of world's dense (and highly inaccessible) rainforests are situated.
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For Gauguin, the arrangement was more prosaic: he could live cheaply in Arles to save money for his next trip to the tropics.
From the earth's poles to the tropics, from the oceans to the planet's most fertile farming regions, global warming could present daunting challenges.
The skull was thought to have come from the tropics or been stored in a warm warehouse where tropical cockroaches can be found.
Currently three billion people live in the tropics and subtropics, and their number is expected nearly to double by the end of the century.
In the tropics, the higher temperatures could be expected to cut yields of the primary food crops, maize and rice, by 20-40%, the researchers said.
Because they are poor and have the misfortune to live near the tropics, those most likely to be affected will be least able to adapt.
Transportation Minister Evert Erenst Mangindaan told reporters on Monday that investigators are looking at possible causes, including freak weather conditions that occasionally occur in the tropics.
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Although most edible plants grow in the tropics, the main efforts to increase harvests have been based on a small selection of species from industrialised countries.
Modelling suggests that a world where additional greenhouse warming has been cancelled out this way will still be warmer at the poles and cooler at the tropics.
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