which can have far-reaching effects on global weather patterns. Describing it simply, El Nino is when the ocean in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean gets warmer than usual. Whereas ...

However, when there's a record of a more intense El Niño, as there was in 2016, which we investigated, and again in 2024, meteorological and hydrological droughts become more severe in the forest.

El Niño has important effects on the world’s economies—and not all of them are bad The current El Niño (Spanish for “The Boy”)—a band of above-average ocean surface temperatures that develops every 3 ...

This year is now almost certain to exceed 1.5C above pre-industrial levels for the first time – but next year is set to be ...

Mathews, a 63-year-old farmer from Lichtenburg in the North West Province of South Africa, said this year's El Nino-induced drought was "very bad," which caused his maize, soybean, and sorghum crops ...

The risk of fires in the Amazon is greater in regions where groundwater storage is compromised, especially when El Niño exacerbates the drought. Using satellite images and data from fires ...

Stronger temperature anomalies make for stronger El Niño and La Niña events, which can have greater and more far-reaching effects around the world. An El Niño sees this wind pattern break down ...

After heat records were smashed and a torrent of extreme weather events rocked countless countries in 2023, some climate ...