The world is so vast, with its Northern and Southern Hemispheres and Eastern and Western Hemispheres. Each region experiences different weather, and each continent has a different climate type. What influences climate, and why are there so many different climate types?
As global climate change intensifies, people are experiencing increasingly frequent "warm winters."
There's a place on Earth where temperatures can drop as low as -70°C (-114°F) at their coldest! It's Oymyakon, a small village in eastern Russia.
The North and South Poles appear symmetrical, one at Earth's northernmost and the other at its southernmost, but the temperature difference is astonishingly large.
The equator, a geographical term, refers to the line of longest circumference along the path of Earth's rotation. Its radius is 6,378.2 km and its circumference is 40,075.02 km.
Where is the hottest place in the world? How hot is it?
