Climate zones — like tropical, temperate or polar — represent more than just temperature; they represent water resources, vegetation, animal life and even where and how humans can live.

Do Earth's Climate Zones Shift? Earth's climate zones—the horizontal belts of different climates that encircle the planet—consist of tropical, dry, temperate, continental, and polar zones.

A new study found trees in temperate forests aren’t as effective at absorbing carbon as some climate models assume.

The share of species which will experience temperatures above their tolerated threshold increases from polar and temperate regions towards tropical regions, even though increases of temperature ...

More evidence to show that the globe is indeed warming. A review of scientific literature released by James Cook University shows that the Earth’s tropical zone is expanding.

It divides the world into five primary climate zones: tropical, arid, temperate, continental, and polar.

There are 5 primary types of climate according to the Köppen–Geiger climate classification system: tropical, dry, temperate, continental, and polar climates.

Climates with high-energy, such as deserts, tropical savannas, and steppes, were found to be similar across different groups of vertebrates and plants. This was not the case for temperate and cold ...