Secluded white sand tropical beach, Aitutaki, Cook Islands, South Pacific. May 1990.

#hiking #photography #landscapephotography #nature #SouthPacific #ocean #seacoast #beach #tropics

Some tropical sailing distraction can't hurt in these dark times. So let's take off for faraway Vanuatu 🇻🇺

Cruising the archipelago of the former New Hebrides is pretty much sailing from a volcanic island to the next.

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Los Tres Ojos Cave, Dominican Republic...

#photography #caves #dominicanrepublic #caribbean #CaribbeanSea #WestIndies #nature #naturalenvironment #water #cavesystem #wildlife #Epiphytes #flora #fauna #geography #tropics

https://formuchdeliberation.wordpress.com/2016/09/22/geopics-on-fmd-3/

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Most Insect Species Call the Tropics Home. But Climate Change Is Pushing Many of the Critters There to Their Heat Limits

Insects in the lowlands will have an especially hard time with rising temperatures, a new study suggests

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/most-insect-species-call-the-tropics-home-but-climate-change-is-pushing-many-of-the-critters-there-to-their-heat-limits-180988304/

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #ClimateInstability #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Tropical plants flowering months earlier or later because of climate crisis – study https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/25/tropical-plants-flower-shifted-months-climate-breakdown-aoe

#tropics #environment #plants #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis