Synonyms for tropics
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1. tropicsnoun

   Synonyms:
   torrid zone, tropical zone

2. tropicsnoun

   The region of the Earth, centred on the equator and lying between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn and characterized by a hot climate.

   Synonyms:
   tropical zone, torrid zone

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1. Torrid Zone, tropical zone, tropicsnoun

   the part of the Earth's surface between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn; characterized by a hot climate

   Synonyms:
   tropical zone

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1. Roger Shaw:

   Being in the tropics with cyclones and the rest adds complexity, but we still need to do more.

2. Jill Huntley:

   Climate change impacts are worse in the equatorial tropics -- Australasia -- because of the unique climate here. It is the most atmospherically dynamic place on Earth. Also, the tropics can experience up to three times the temperature increases under climate change compared to other parts of the world.

3. Direk Limmathurotsakul:

   Melioidosis is a great mimicker of other diseases and you need a good microbiology laboratory for bacterial culture and identification to make an accurate diagnosis, it especially affects the rural poor in the tropics, who often do not have access to microbiology labs, which means that it has been greatly under-estimated as an important public health problem across the world.

4. Terry Hughes:

   If we go to 3, 4 degrees of global average warming which is tragically the trajectory we are currently on, then there won't be much left of The Great Barrier Reef or any other coral reefs throughout the tropics.

5. Phil Klotzbach:

   El Niño tends to have its strongest impacts on hurricanes forming in the deep tropics, so, Caribbean storms tend to really get knocked down in El Niño years, due to increases in vertical wind shear.