Before visiting Ecuador, the eponymous equator wasn’t the most eagerly-anticipated moment on my bucket list trip. There were giant tortoises to meet, cloud forests to climb and Indigenous markets to ...

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 ...

FARGO — The autumnal equinox is at 7:43 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 22. At this moment, the equator of the Earth will lie in exactly the same plane as Earth's orbit around the sun. A person standing on the ...

Even though, at 69, I’m much older than the demographic for which “The Mini Page” is written, I enjoy reading it every Sunday in the Comics section. Often I learn something, and it’s also informative ...