The equator may sound like a foreign geography concept, but did you know it plays an outsized role in shaping Earth's weather, climate and even ocean behavior? "The equator is basically just an ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. It's easy to assume that the further into the tropics you go, the more ...

Hurricanes are like a vast spinning turbine fueled by warm, moist air. (Representative pic) Hurricanes, also known as typhoons or cyclones, are powerhouse weather events that suck heat from tropical ...

Geoffrey Evatt was snowmobiling in Antarctica when he spotted an outlandish feature. A black rock stood so starkly against the diamantine ice that even the untrained eye would have known it was not ...

The first question we asked was, Why? Why did Suzuki and Nissan apparently agree that a regrilled Frontier belongs in Suzuki showrooms? The answer, of course, is that Suzuki doesn’t sell a pickup in ...

About 15 miles north of Quito, a yellow line representing the Equator runs up a long, regal walkway to the base of the Mitad del Mundo monument, built in 1979. The thing is, they built the structure ...

The tropical water at the equator is renowned for having the richest diversity of marine life on Earth, with vibrant coral reefs and large aggregations of tunas, sea turtles, manta rays and whale ...

Also known as Congo-Brazzaville, this country lies in Central Africa, bordered by Gabon, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Atlantic Ocean. This ...

Every year, about 600,000 tourists visit the Middle of the World Monument in Ecuador. They take pictures straddling a giant line that demarcates the northern hemisphere from the south — however what ...