Each year, humpback whales migrate predictably between cold, nutrient-rich feeding grounds and warm, tropical calving grounds ...

Sometimes the calves come during their epic migration, and have to complete the journey in their mother’s slipstream. In fact ...

In tropical rainforest areas, dense vegetation absorbs radiation giving a low relative albedo effect. The Sun is directly overhead in the equatorial and tropical regions throughout the year.

there is a net gain of solar energy in the tropical latitudes and a net loss towards the poles tropical latitudes receive more of the Sun's energy than polar regions You can see in the graph below ...

Stronger Tropical Cyclones Strengthen the Kuroshio Current, Further Heating High Latitudes (2 of 2) (IMAGE) American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Caption ...