It shows a near 30% drop in biodiversity since 1970, and an even faster decline in the tropics of 60%.
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To be precise you are back in a special region of the tropics, because so much of Miami on the surface can make you forget you are there.
With gravel crunching underfoot the footpath wends through moist and sheltered valleys, where tree ferns and nikau palms bring a hint of the tropics to this relaxed corner of New Zealand.
The reason for this is the paucity of data over the tropics, where many of world's dense (and highly inaccessible) rainforests are situated.
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Call it a Fisher's Island of the tropics, with a Louis Vuitton store on Main Street.
Coral reefs exist in over 50 countries and they stretch across much of the tropics and subtropics.
Nicknamed the "Donald Trump of the Tropics" in the Miami press, Perez started his career as a developer in low-income housing.
The needle allowed humans to clothe themselves, protecting themselves against cold weather and opening regions outside of the tropics to human settlement.
Undoubtedly the crisis is being exacerbated by climate change, which is resulting in increasing water stress in poor communities in many parts of the tropics currently facing water insecurity.
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In fact, the sporadic transmission of malaria in the sub-tropical regions of the rich countries was vastly easier to control than is its chronic transmission in the heart of the tropics.
In 21 countries, mainly in the tropics, more than 90% of protected areas were vulnerable.
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One advertiser was most concerned that I might have forgotten to buy a souvenir of my vacation in the tropics.
The idea has proved effective in some rich-world grain silos, but Tanya Stathers, of Greenwich University in England, wanted to see if it would work in the smaller-scale and rather different conditions of storage found in the tropics.
Well now this, this new year you didn't get your usual new year holiday abroad and some people said that was because, because this is election year, others said well it's because Leo in the tropics, he's a bit young to go to the tropics, presumably it was a bit of both was it?
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Although many of his skyscrapers are in the tropics, most don't require air-conditioning.
The knowledge and experience of the remaining indigenous people in the tropics can contribute decisively to increasing food production in the tropics and in ways that will not destroy the croplands within a generation or two.
The effect in the tropics should be even greater due to the inefficient nature of markets for tropical forests and forest products.
But since most of the biodiversity in world is in the tropics, if we want to help maintain that, we have to take responsibility for getting those salaries paid.
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Far from being a social and economic underachiever, Brazil is the only example of a success for western civilisation in the tropics (look at the mess that Britain, France, Germany and Portugal made in Africa).
The UN models agree with established science that if human greenhouse gas emissions were causing global warming, there should be a hot spot of higher temperatures in the troposphere above the tropics, where collected concentrations would have the greatest effect, and the warming would show up first.
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In the tropics, the higher temperatures could be expected to cut yields of the primary food crops, maize and rice, by 20-40%, the researchers said.
Many of the lizards have not been fed properly, or have been kept in hot dry conditions instead of the humidity they're used to in the tropics.
Currently three billion people live in the tropics and subtropics, and their number is expected nearly to double by the end of the century.
Although most edible plants grow in the tropics, the main efforts to increase harvests have been based on a small selection of species from industrialised countries.
They are colonies of tiny living organisms, most commonly found in warm shallow waters in the tropics.
The cloud characteristics included differences in the ease with which moist air in the tropics travels into the upper atmosphere, the speed with which raindrops fatten and the level of humidity required for clouds to form.
To the west are the saw-edges of glacier-encrusted rock and ice, serrated by more than 30 jagged peaks heavy with snow, the highest of which is 6, 768m-high Huascaran, the tallest mountain in the tropics.
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