With some 33, 000 full-time students, the University specializes in tropical agriculture, maritime studies, tourism and law.
We are not departing in tropical storm season, though there is still a risk.
They indicated that at the time, the whitetip was common in tropical waters all over the world.
The main hospital in Gonaives and most of the health clinics were destroyed in Tropical Storm Hanna.
Globalisation is speeding up the process by boosting the demand for agricultural goods produced in tropical countries.
I'm going to do a master's program in London for a year in tropical medicine and international health.
They may also be applicable to small island states in tropical regions in other parts of the world.
Most of the disappearances will be in colder regions and most new ones will pop up in tropical areas.
Researchers say the shark, which lives in tropical water like the Gulf of Mexico, has never been very abundant.
And the price of one of its main products--palm oil, widely used for cooking in tropical Africa--also went haywire.
Dr Madeleine Thomson, a consultant and lecturer in tropical medicine, was part of the team which analysed the satellite data.
In the town square were two gourmet restaurants as well as a local-wine merchant and a pet store specializing in tropical fish.
U.S. land grant colleges with experience in tropical agricultural could undertake this.
But there was a band of blue sky just above the gray, the blue you see in tropical postcards, the blue of the Mediterranean.
Lorises, which are nocturnal and carnivorous primates, are native to parts of South Asia and South East Asia, and live in tropical forest areas.
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These diseases most commonly occur in tropical areas of the world.
U.N. scientific experts say a warmer world is likely to spread disease in tropical regions, cause sea levels to rise and increase the rate of severe storms.
Like many developing countries in tropical Africa, Latin America and Asia, Liberia possesses a vast wealth of biologically rich and globally important forests, despite its difficult economic circumstances.
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It donates grants to organisations in the UK and worldwide, and runs a forests programme targeted at avoiding deforestation in tropical areas in some of the world's poorest countries.
Analyses of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans show a significant warming trend in tropical areas of the Northern Hemisphere, close to what is known as the thermal equator.
Field tests of the CT2WS system were conducted in desert terrain at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona, in tropical terrain in Hawaii, and in open terrain at California's Camp Roberts.
"Every year in tropical countries we lose about an area of forest about the size of New York state, " said Peter Frumhoff, of the advocacy group the Union of Concerned Scientists.
After years of fishing in tropical locales and sweating through his shirts, Chouinard came up with the idea for Patagonia's Puckerware fabric, introduced in 1998, which wicks moisture from the skin.
An RSPCA wildlife expert explained that coatis are native to South, Central and parts of North America and are commonly found in tropical forests, living primarily on a diet of insects.
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Dengue fever is common in tropical and sub-tropical countries.
"American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest, another popular Twitter user, also agreed Friday to make a donation of mosquito bed nets, which help prevent the biting insects from spreading malaria in tropical countries.
At one time or another, indigenous people in tropical Africa and South America knew how to cultivate and prepare nutritious food by selective breeding of as many as 30, 000 species of plants.
The plant would generate 10 megawatts of power by exploiting natural temperature variations in tropical seas, and unlike other renewable energy sources it would operate nonstop 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.
For example the pharmaceutical industry is increasingly drawing on India's advanced but comparatively inexpensive medicinal chemistry capabilities, while simultaneously harnessing China's manufacturing power and utilizing specialty services unique to particular geographies, such as Vietnam's expertise in tropical diseases.
Total carbon deposits per square kilometer in these coastal systems may be up to five times the carbon stored in tropical forests, due to their ability to absorb, or sequester, carbon at rates up to 50 times those of the same area of tropical forest.
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