Sentences with phrase «tropical rain forests like»
These trends would further desiccate many of the world's great deserts like the Sahara and the Arabian (both in the northern subtropics), whereas tropical rain forests like those in Amazonia and Africa straddling the equator and the southern tropic zone would get wetter.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/ Not exact matches
Like the Spider Monkey, these guys can be found in the rain forests, cloud forests, and tropical dry forests.
Use your hands to take pictures of the rain - forest canopy teeming with monkeys or take a closer look of a tropical bird with your binoculars while you float with us in the oar boat where our expert naturalist will paddle and you relax like the iguanas nearby sunning themselves on the branches.
High humidity, less rain, and low lying clouds contribute to the fog - like conditions in Costa Rica's Escallonia cloud forest, which is a natural habitat for orchids, ferns, and many species of tropical hummingbirds.
These ecosystems, primarily the Arctic tundra (5), peatlands (1), and tropical rain forests (6, 7, 8), harbor ancient, highly - concentrated carbon stocks, which are rapidly released during fire events like the one in Indonesia.
Other feedbacks include forests, and most importantly, water vapour, which as the temperature of the atmosphere rises increases in the atmosphere (think tropical rain forest), and water vapour is a potent greenhouse gas (but it is not the «controller» of our climate because it does not accumulate in the atmosphere, only gases like CO2, methane and nitrous oxide do this) See Skeptical Science https://skepticalscience.com/co2-lags-temperature.htm
El Nino has been linked to strong winter storms that batter Southern California, to a weak hurricane season in the Atlantic as high - altitude winds shear the towering tops from developing tropical storms, to searing droughts in southern Asia like the one that spawned enormous rain forest fires in Indonesia in 1997.
In the pool house changing room of Coastal Living's 2016 Hamptons Showhouse, a leafy emerald and blue jungle print is tempered by natural rattan pieces and a woven rug that help make the space feel even more like a tropical rain forest.