Known to sailors around the world as the doldrums, the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) is a belt around the Earth extending approximately five degrees north and south of the equator. Here, the prevailing trade winds of the northern hemisphere blow to the southwest and collide with the southern hemisphere’s driving northeast trade winds.

Charred remains of a flatbread baked about 14,500 years ago in a stone fireplace at a site in northeastern Jordan have given researchers a delectable surprise: people began making bread, a vital staple food, millennia before they developed agriculture.

He came from the Northeast.

Kabylie is a densely populated Berber speaking region located in northeastern Algeria.

Kabylie is a very interesting region located in northeastern Algeria.

Lake Erie is known for seiches, especially when strong winds blow from southwest to northeast. In 1844, a 22-foot seiche breached a 14-foot-high sea wall killing 78 people and damming the ice to the extent that Niagara Falls temporarily stopped flowing.

Kabylie is located in northeastern Algeria.

Kabylie is in northeastern Algeria.

Northeastern Chinese dishes are tasteless.

Eulachon are an anadromous forage fish and are endemic to the northeastern Pacific Ocean; they range from northern California to southwest and south-central Alaska and into the southeastern Bering Sea.