A week or so ago, when there was a weeny temperate gap in the Arctic spring, I noticed that the pond was heaving with froggies, with one clump of them clinging to a white thing.
You'll have time to explore this coastal temperate rainforest by foot and kayak - look out for black bears, wolves, otters, eagles and the indigenous First Nation culture.
Kofi Annan speaks with the unhurried, temperate tone of someone confident of being listened to.
In America each additional day above 32°C raises the annual age-adjusted mortality rate by 0.1% relative to a temperate day 10-15°C 10-15°C
These include places like Central Asia and the Caucasus, where falciparum is unknown for, unlike falciparum, which is genuinely a tropical disease, vivax can thrive in temperate climes.
More broadly, the Living Planet Index, a compilation of a wide range of indicators of biodiversity produced by the Zoological Society of London and WWF, has risen over the past 40 years in temperate (generally rich) countries and fallen in tropical (generally poor) ones.
In places that are currently hotter and drier, such as Spain and parts of the Mediterranean, gardeners will come to appreciate the charms of cacti and succulents.In drier but more temperate places, it might be time to rethink the lawn.
Asparagus can be cut twice as often as in temperate climes.Other Brazilians might disagree with Mr Eijsink, but only to assert their region's claim to being agriculture's paradise.
According to one estimate, tropical rainforests contain around half of all the world's species far more than the temperate forests of Europe and America.
This process, known as molecular evolution, results in changes in the genes, the proteins made from those genes and, ultimately, the organisms the genes reside in.The researchers found that the rate at which nucleotides changed in tropical species was more than twice that found in species from temperate latitudes.
His conclusions, published this week in Nature Climate Change, confirm for the tropics the findings for temperate climes of a recent American study.
