the tropics

plural noun

: the part of the world that is near the equator where the weather is very warm

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There’s a band around the center of the tropics where all of the sugar is grown and the ingredients are grown. —

Alissa Fitzgerald, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024 Climate change, urban development and deforestation put trees at risk in the tropics due to their higher risk of storms or other natural disasters. —

Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 29 Oct. 2024 The intrigue: El Niño years, such as 2023, tend to bring steeper increases in greenhouse gas levels because of drought in the tropics that reduces forests' ability to take in CO2. —

Andrew Freedman, Axios, 28 Oct. 2024 Freeman argues that removing less detailed or more error-prone data from the calculation — much of which is from poorer regions in the tropics where there’s less research — could fail to capture the full picture of wildlife declines. —

Benji Jones, Vox, 9 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for the tropics