Retreat of glaciers since 1850 doing so due to transient local weather conditions, which have brought more precipitation and cloudier, cooler summers since 2002. Tropical glaciers are located between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, in the region that lies 23° 26′ 22″ north or south of the equator. Strictly, a tropical glacier is located within the astronomical tropics; the area where the annual temperature variation is less than the daily variation, and is within the oscillation area of the Intertropical Convergence Zone. Tropical glaciers are the most uncommon of all glaciers for a variety of reasons. Firstly, the regions are the
The North and the South; or, Slavery and Its Contrasts The North and the South; or, Slavery and Its Contrasts The North and the South; or, Slavery and Its Contrasts is an 1852 plantation fiction novel by Caroline Rush, and among the first examples of the genre, alongside others such as "Aunt Phillis's Cabin" by Mary Henderson Eastman and "Life at the South; or, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" As It Is" by W.L.G. Smith, both of which were also released in 1852. "The North and the South" was one of several examples of the pro-slavery plantation literature genre that emerged from the Southern United States in response to "Uncle Tom's Cabin"