The International Day of the Tropics, observed on June 29 annually, focuses on the significance of the tropics as hubs of the ...

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.

Solstice 2025 is on June 21st, 2025. Learn what it is, its meaning, and how Earth's tilt creates the longest day (Northern ...

Although we got an early start to that mid-year heat, we officially transition into astronomical summer at 9:42 p.m. tonight.

The summer solstice occurs when Earth reaches the point in its orbit where the North Pole is angled closest to the Sun ...

From Earth, the Sun will appear farthest north relative to the stars. People living on the Tropic of Cancer, 23.5 degrees north of the Equator, will see the Sun pass straight overhead at noon.

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

In Raleigh, the earliest sunrise of 2025 occurred June 12 at 5:57 a.m., while sunsets will continue shifting later by a few seconds each day until Sunday, June 28.