Sentences with phrase «tropical regions»

For centuries, people from tropical regions of the world have enjoyed the amazing health benefits of coconut water.

These oils have been used for both nutritional and medicinal purposes by indigenous communities from tropical regions for thousands of years.

Other tropical regions see similar changes, both negative and positive.

Coconut oil's popularity is a seemingly new trend, but it has actually been a staple in various tropical regions around the world for many years.

Despite ongoing efforts to eradicate malaria, it remains entrenched in many tropical regions.

Future droughts in wet tropical regions will likely increase in frequency and severity, and consequently the fire risk.

Cats that live in more tropical regions or that mainly live indoors may cycle all year round.

* Editor's Note: We know many of our readers reside in the southern hemisphere and lovely tropical regions!

Further studies of tropical regions involving new satellites should enable scientists to work with affected countries to better conserve and manage their forests.

The diversity of this stunning tropical region is incredible, offering the best of both worlds for a tropical holiday experience of a lifetime.

For example, food production is projected to decline in tropical regions as rising temperatures decrease crop yields.

Future droughts in wet tropical regions will likely increase in frequency and severity, and consequently the fire risk, the team says.

The study, published online this week in the International Journal of Climatology, found that while most of the models predicted that the middle and upper parts of the troposphere — 1 to 6 miles above the Earth's surface — would have warmed drastically over the past 30 years, actual observations showed only a little warming, especially over tropical regions.

More than 200 million people are currently affected, with 600 million who live in tropical regions with inadequate water supplies and sanitation in danger of contracting the disease.

A graviola fruit can weigh up to 15 pounds, according to Purdue University, and its pulp, which is white and flaky, is a common ingredient in fruit cups and salads throughout tropical regions of Central and South America.

There are far fewer assessments of possible climate - change impacts on tropical regions outside Amazonia.

As Saatchi wrote in his paper, Benchmark Map of Forest Carbon Stocks in Tropical Regions Across Three Continents, the probability map was often just 50/50 at the level of individual pixels — each of which represented one hectare — but it was 95 % accurate on plots the size of a typical forest carbon project (10,000 hectares or more), and to 99 % when scaled up to the size of a country (1 million hectares or more).

Jackfruit was originally cultivated in India, but is grown throughout tropical regions including Southeast Asia, South America, Australia and the Caribbean.

Native to the deep tropical regions of Central and South America, the cacao tree, or Theobroma cacao (Latin translation: «food of the gods») is a flowering plant that produces cacao seeds, which, when sun - dried and cold - pressed, results in raw chocolate.

Because El Niño's warmer, drier conditions in tropical regions mimic the effects of climate change expected by the end of the century, those observations may be a sobering harbinger of the tropics» diminishing role as a...

The higher CO2 levels of the Pliocene have long been associated with a warmer world, but evidence from tropical regions suggested relatively stable temperatures.

Fresh - water snails living in certain tropical regions of the world release the larval forms of the schistosome parasite, which penetrate the skin, migrate through the body, and develop into adults that lay eggs that cause the disease.

It makes it even harder to fathom that almost half the packaged products available on our supermarket shelves contains an ingredient grown in tropical regions all over the world: Palm -LSB-...]

«The relationship between tropical climate and greenhouse gases is particularly critical because tropical regions receive the highest proportion of solar output and act as a heat engine for the rest of the earth,» said Lea.

A nudging technique is applied to guide selected tropical regions toward 40 - yr European Centre for Medium - Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Re-Analysis (ERA - 40) and...

A nudging technique is applied to guide selected tropical regions toward 40 - yr European Centre for Medium - Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Re-Analysis (ERA - 40) and the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) / Department of Energy Reanalysis (NCEP - 2).

It's urgent not only to stop their destruction but also to develop large - scale reforestation policies, especially for tropical regions.

In the 16th century, Portuguese explorers took cashew trees from this South American country and introduced them into other tropical regions such as India and some African countries, where they are now also cultivated.

Projects are already in the works to build channels from sources in the sparsely populated but water - rich Amazon basin, while tropical regions are seeing increased migration from the highlands.

The video is reminiscent of the 19th - century «découverte» of Brazil's exotic tropical regions.

«When the temperature increases in the tropics, whether you move north or south, there is no change in the temperature,» he said, describing how tropical regions generally warm evenly.

Rapid decomposition facilitated by warm temperatures and abundant moisture in these same tropical regions slowed the accumulation of organic matter that was not protected from microbial decomposers.

This retreat has been interrupted by stillstands and re-advances, although a detailed chronology of these events in tropical regions remained unclear until now.

Although tropical regions vary considerably, they are «typically warm and experience little seasonal change in daily temperatures.»

They noted that many poor nations, for instance, are clustered in tropical regions characterized by poor soils for agriculture and lots of nasty diseases, such as malaria.

The genomes show that the bird parasites were widespread because they infected different bird groups that occurred in each of the world's major tropical regions and would have been isolated from each other at the time.

Named for the Malay or Javanese word for a village or cluster of houses, The Kampong is the former estate of Dr. David Fairchild, the famed botanical explorer who traveled throughout Southeast Asia and other tropical regions collecting exotic plants he introduced to the U.S.

The end Permian extinction saw around 90 % of species go extinct, and it left tropical regions on the planet lethally hot, too hot for complex life to survive.

Beans constitute a major ingredient in Latin American, Mediterranean, and Asian cuisine and are popular in tropical regions worldwide.

If you do want to breed tortoises, keep in mind that many species from tropical regions never experience anything like what we think of as winter, and for all intents and purposes, the same natural temperature drop in households should be enough for them as well.

A lush tropical region with a rhythmic heartbeat and easy - going charm, there's nowhere on the planet quite like the Caribbean.