To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator ...

The tropics, as a region, account for 40 per cent of the world’s total surface area and are host to approximately 80 per cent of the world’s biodiversity.

Summer officially begins in the Northern Hemisphere on June 20 with the summer solstice, the day with the greatest amount of possible daylight and the shortest night.

The Tropic of Capricorn touches only the tip of South Africa's northernmost province, but that's enough to include the Kruger National Park.

Astronomical summer begins tonight, June 20, at 10:42 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time — the moment of the June solstice. At that ...

It has arrived! Well, almost. Summer will officially begin at 9:42 pm this tonight. San Antonio will be facing its longest ...

The summer solstice occurs when the Earth's semi-axis in a given hemisphere reaches its maximum tilt toward the sun, approximately 23° 26'. This happens twice a year, but only once in each hemisphere ...

Six months from now the Sun will reach its southern extreme and pass overhead for people on the Tropic of Capricorn, and northerners will experience their shortest days of the year, at the winter ...

For December’s winter solstice, the Sun’s most direct rays are positioned over the Tropic of Capricorn (23.5 degrees south latitude). National Weather Service) ...

During the winter solstice, the sun's rays will be directly over the Tropic of Capricorn, a line of latitude that circles the Earth in the Southern Hemisphere. In astrology, ...