These winds are generated in a swirling mass of matter around the equatorial region of a black hole, the accretion disk.

CNN: Black holes in a new light

The deadly logic of addiction -- the drive to acquire oil at all costs -- is experienced with particular ferocity in the oil-producing states of the equatorial region and global south.

CNN: The price of our oil addiction

Using a ground-piercing radar sensor aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a team of scientists created 3-D maps of an equatorial region known as Elysium Planitia and the channels that run underneath the plains.

NPR: Radar Reveals Apparent Buried Channels On Mars

This study showed that the Western Equatorial region of the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean was as warm, if not warmer, since the end of the last major ice age, approximately 12, 000 years ago.

BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | World 'warmest for 12,000 years'