It looks downright tropical there.

I'd like to get away, escape to the tropics.

Like all tropical storms, it was fuelled by heat.

This is the tower in the middle of the rainforest, from above.

It's so deep even the equatorial sun is completely shut out

OK, so this is our movie of the equatorial region of Titan, showing these dunes.

Evidence for Large Decadal Variability in the Tropical Mean Radiative Energy Budget.

At dawn, the cold blooded iguanas thaw from the night's chill absorbing the heat of the equatorial sun

They basically are one nation that controls most of the equatorial waters of the Central Pacific Ocean.

A tropical rainforest without rain wouldn't be much of a rainforest.

That's as bizarre as finding that the Antarctic on the Earth is hotter than the tropics.

I started out in Chesapeake Bay and went diving in the winter and became a tropical ecologist overnight.

And I thought that this richness belonged to tropical seas, and that the Mediterranean was a naturally poor sea.

And it's the best thing and the most nutritious and refreshing thing you can drink on a hot day in the tropics, so I said sure.

She has experience working with migratory populations in Spain and providing aid assistance in Colombia, Senegal, and Equatorial Guinea.

The equatorial coordinate system is a widely used celestial coordinate system used to specify the positions of celestial objects.

And let's start with this time machine, the Line Islands, where we have conducted a series of National Geographic expeditions.

We found a global atmospheric watchtower there, in the middle of the rainforest, and hung hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of scientific equipment off this tower, to look for isoprene, and of course, other things while we were there.

And it has two nice fences of tropical hardwood trees you have the shade trees planted in year one, then you underplanted with the sugar palms, and you plant this thorny fence.

I came directly here from the deep, deep tropical rainforest in Ecuador, where I was out you could only get there by a plane with indigenous people with paint on their faces and parrot feathers on their headdresses, where these people are fighting to try and keep the oil companies, and keep the roads, out of their forests.

And what was so amazing to me, and what fits right in with what we're all talking about here at TED, is that there, right in the middle of this rainforest, was some solar panels the first in that part of Ecuador and that was mainly to bring water up by pump so that the women wouldn't have to go down.

And in a place where we thought no life at all, we find more life, we think, and diversity and density than the tropical rainforest, which tells us that we don't know much about this planet at all.

The Phoenix Islands and all the equatorial parts of our planet are very important for tuna fisheries, especially this yellowfin tuna that you see here.

Over 700 people from 70 countries gathered in the Floating Auditorium surrounded by alligators, during the worst Amazon drought in the past 100 years.

And what we see is that for coastal tags, for those organisms that live near the shoreline, they're most diverse in the tropics.

And it has two nice fences of tropical hardwood trees you have the shade trees planted in year one, then you underplanted with the sugar palms, and you plant this thorny fence.

In the tropics, raindrops are not formed from ice crystals, which is the case in the temperate zones, you need the trees with unclear , chemicals that come out of the leaves of the trees that initiate the raindrops.

On smaller projects we have simply set the goal to get anything on World Health Organization (WHO) s list of essential medicines, as well as anything about neglected tropical diseases, also from a list by the WHO.

And in a place where we thought no life at all, we find more life, we think, and diversity and density than the tropical rainforest, which tells us that we don't know much about this planet at all.

In the tropics, raindrops are not formed from ice crystals, which is the case in the temperate zones, you need the trees with unclear , chemicals that come out of the leaves of the trees that initiate the raindrops.

OK, so this is our movie of the equatorial region of Titan, showing these dunes. These are dunes that are 100 meters tall, separated by a few kilometers, and they go on for miles and miles and miles.

We found a global atmospheric watchtower there, in the middle of the rainforest, and hung hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of scientific equipment off this tower, to look for isoprene, and of course, other things while we were there.

And inside, we have this area for reforestation as a gene bank to keep all that material alive, because for the last 12 years not a single seedling of the tropical hardwood trees has grown up because the climatic triggers have disappeared.

In 4 minutes, atmospheric chemist Rachel Pike provides a glimpse of the massive scientific effort behind the bold headlines on climate change, with her team one of thousands who contributed taking a risky flight over the rainforest in pursuit of data on a key molecule.

And what was so amazing to me, and what fits right in with what we're all talking about here at TED, is that there, right in the middle of this rainforest, was some solar panels the first in that part of Ecuador and that was mainly to bring water up by pump so that the women wouldn't have to go down.