It was built for trade, but the schooner Equator knew glamour, too: It embarked on a South Seas cruise just a year after it was launched, with one of the biggest celebrities of the 19th century on ...

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 ...

The Equator Cafe, an Old Town Pasadena institution at the corner of Mills Place and Edwin Alley since 1993, will officially reopen as Edwin Mills by Equator on Jan. 22. What was once the city’s go-to, ...

The equator, an imaginary line circling the Earth, is not only a geographical marker but also a zone of peculiar phenomena. Straddling this line comes with a set of experiences that are as fascinating ...

About 15 miles north of Quito, a yellow line representing the Equator runs up a long, regal walkway to the base of the Mitad del Mundo monument, built in 1979. The thing is, they built the structure ...

The Equator imaginary line that divides the northern and southern hemispheres has literally put asunder a section of the Meru community. The division has emerged over which area, between Gatimbi ...

It's easy to assume that the further into the tropics you go, the more at risk you are of encountering one of nature's most ferocious creations—a hurricane. However, due to a quirk of nature, it turns ...

Here's why hurricanes, also known as tropical cyclones and typhoons, don't form at the equator and why it would be rare for them to cross it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...