Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Planting more trees is often seen as one of the simplest ways to fight climate change, and it is. But a new study from UC ...

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You probably saw a multi-colored climate map at least once in school. You might have pored over it, fascinated. Was Antarctica really a cold desert? And why was so much of Russia listed as tundra?

The Intertropical Convergence Zone, or ITCZ, is a belt that circles the Earth near the equator, where the trade winds from the Northern and Southern hemispheres meet. This convergence forces warm, ...