The equator, an imaginary line dividing the Earth into hemispheres, influences unique phenomena. It dictates weather patterns, prevents hurricanes from crossing due to the Coriolis effect, and creates ...

More than 900 people are dead, thousands more missing and millions affected by a band of cyclones and extreme monsoonal weather across southern Asia. Torrential rain has triggered the worst flooding ...

Disruptive space weather sweeps across the globe's equatorial regions, bearing currents that can disrupt power grids in locations where electricity distribution systems were previously considered safe ...

Stormy space weather sweeping across the equator is threatening vital power grids in regions long considered safe from such events, ground-breaking new research reveals. Dr Brett Carter of the RMIT ...

A long, brown oval known as a "brown barge" in Jupiter's South Equatorial Belt is captured in this color-enhanced image from NASA's Juno spacecraft. New simulations show that the search for life on ...

A global analysis of coral bleaching across 81 countries reveals that reefs in the equatorial Coral Triangle region were ...

Global warming is causing the word's oceans to heat up—a process that can be observed in almost all regions of the planet. However, one stretch of water known as the "equatorial cold tongue" appears ...

Chestnut Hill, MA (Aug. 17, 2015) - Extreme space weather has long been seen as a threat to electrical grids in high-latitude regions of the northern and southern hemispheres. But a new study finds ...

Dr Brett Carter of the RMIT SPACE Research Centre and his team from RMIT, Boston College and Dartmouth College, found that these equatorial electrical disruptions threaten power grids in Southeast ...