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 ...
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 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 ...
The fierce winds of a hurricane are known as tropical cyclones in some parts of the world, so you might expect them to sweep across the entire tropics. But there's one area of the tropics where ...
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 ...