Climate change has sparked a mass exodus of nearly 50,000 marine species from the equator

On June 23, 1988, a sultry day in Washington, James Hansen told Congress and the world that global warming wasn’t approaching – it had already arrived.  The testimony of the top NASA scientist, said Rice University historian Douglas Brinkley, was ‘the opening salvo of the age of climate change.’ Thirty years later, it’s clear that … Read more

Sharks hunt in warmer rather than hot waters around the equator

Sharks like to hunt in waters around Europe, South Africa and the US because they dislike the warm waters around the equator Researchers studied 900 million incidents of sharks attacking fishing line bait They looked at records from 1960 to 2014 for sharks, tuna, sailfish and marlin The Bern team found that most predatory fish … Read more

With rainforests, mountains and volcanoes, a holiday on Ecuador’s equator is halfway to paradise 

‘Ecuador ama la vida’ reads the enormous sign built out of rocks at the peak of the Casitgua Mountain at the southern end of Quito, the country’s capital city. Ecuador loves life. And indeed it does, for this small but extraordinary South American country is one of the most biodiverse in the world, stretching from … Read more