Nature's Fury Hurricanes, also known as tropical cyclones or typhoons depending on the region, are formidable natural ...

Wind moves the surface waters by friction, but away from the equator the Coriolis effect means this is diverted, to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left south of the equator ...

If Earth stopped spinning, gravity would remain essentially the same, but the Coriolis effect would cease ... which protects us from solar wind and coronal mass ejections. As a result, it ...