And this is the tropics.

It lives throughout the tropics, the Americas,

Imagine juggling a snowball across the tropics.

It's like the goddamn tropics in here.

Bats in the tropics are major pollinators of many plants.

Since I'm already in the tropics, I chose Tropical rainforest.

Salmon sharks go down to the tropics to pup and come into Monterey.

Some 1,500 miles south of the tropics, between Chile and Bolivia, the Andes completely change.

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

That took me to this wet and warm band of the tropics that encircles the Earth.

Now most pollinators that we think about are insects, but actually in the tropics, many birds and butterflies pollinate.

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

But this kind of fishbone pattern of deforestation is something we notice a lot of around the tropics, especially in this part of the world.

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.

So this is the combination where we have all this genetic potential in the tropics, which is still unexploited, and doing it in combination with technology.

He's born in Cameroon, which is smack in the middle of my tropics map, and more specifically his skeleton wound up in the Smithsonian museum getting picked clean by beetles.

One thing I want to point out is that underneath these live epiphytes, as they die and decompose, they actually construct an arboreal soil, both in the temperate zone and in the tropics.

On the other hand, the, you know, heat stress is going to be one of the things, or thought to be one of the things that might limit production of crops throughout the tropics.

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.

It deteriorates so quickly in the tropics that we've had to put this special vaccine monitor on every single vial so that it will change very quickly when it's exposed to too much heat, and we can tell that it's not a good vaccine to use on a child it's not potent it's not going to protect them.

The 109th Air National Guard flew the most recent shipment of ice back to the coast of Antarctica, where it was boarded onto a freighter, shipped across the tropics to California, unloaded, put on a truck, driven across the desert to the National Ice Core Laboratory in Denver, Colorado, where, as we speak, scientists are now slicing this material up for samples, for analysis, to be distributed to the laboratories around the country and in Europe.