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The Latest Breaking News from El Niño

La Niña is dead after just a few months. What happened?

The La Niña weather pattern ended last month as Pacific Ocean temperatures rose and the El Niño Southern Oscillation cycle entered a neutral state, according to the NOAA.

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Peru’s ancient irrigation systems succeeded in turning deserts into farms because of the culture − without it, the systems failed

Seeing the north coast of Peru for the first time, you would be hard-pressed to believe it’s one of the driest deserts in the world.

The Conversation

Consecutive El Niños are happening more often and the result is more devastating – new research

El Niño, a climate troublemaker, has long been one of the largest drivers of variability in the global climate. Every few years, the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean seesaws between warm (El Niño) and cold (La Niña) phases. This reshuffles rainfall patterns, unleashing floods, droughts and storms thousands of miles from…

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Record January heat suggests La Niña may be losing its ability to keep global warming in check

January 2025 was the hottest on record – a whole 1.7°C above pre-industrial levels. If many climate-watchers expected the world to cool slightly this year thanks to the natural “La Niña” phenomena, the climate itself didn’t seem to get the memo. In fact, January 2025’s record heat highlights how human-driven…

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1,200-year-old remains of dismembered pregnant woman in Ecuador hint at 'enigmatic' sacrifice to thwart El Niño

The unusual burial of a woman and fetus in prehistoric Ecuador may reflect the community's fear of her power.

LiveScience

Wildfires drive record leap in global level of climate-heating CO2

Data for 2024 shows humanity is moving yet deeper into a dangerous world of supercharged extreme weather

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2024’s extreme ocean heat breaks records again, leaving 2 mysteries to solve

The oceans are heating up as the planet warms.

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Five climate change stories to keep an eye on this year

This year will be one of the hottest ever. It’ll probably feature horrendous extreme weather, crop failures and a further crackdown on climate activism.

The Conversation

La Niña back this summer? Not likely – and unofficial declarations are jumping the gun

It’s the height of summer and many Australians have already experienced heatwaves, heavy rains and even significant bushfires over the Christmas and New Year period. But could we be in for something different as summer draws to a close?

The Conversation

2025 expected to be one of the hottest years, Met Office says

The Met Office announced that 2025 will be one of the three warmest years for global average temperature after 2024 and 2023...

The National (Scotland)

La Niña winter is nearly here. How could the climate pattern affect the US?

Last year’s El Niño event brought the warmest winter on record in the continental US

The Independent UK

Australia may be facing another La Niña summer. We’ve found a way to predict them earlier, to help us prepare

Meteorologists are again predicting a possible La Niña this summer, which means Australia may face wetter and cooler conditions than normal.

The Conversation

Shells of Ancient Ice Age Marine Life Suggest A Common Weather Phenomenon Is About to Get Much Worse

A new study blends paleontology and climate science could help predict Earth's future.

Inverse

Volcano Were Blamed for the Greatest of Earth’s ‘Big Five’ Mass Extinctions — Scientists Might Have Been Wrong

A new study reveals that an El Niño weather pattern in the world’s major ocean added to climate chaos and led to extinctions spreading across the globe.

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Global heating is making El Niño and La Niña forecasts less reliable, BoM says

Exclusive: Meteorologists say climate change and the amount of heat being added to the oceans make predictions based on the past less reliable

The Conversation

Earth’s greatest mass extinction 250 million years ago shows what happens when El Niño gets out of control – new study

Around 252 million years ago, the world suddenly heated up. Over a geologically brief period of tens of thousands of years, 90% of species were wiped out. Even insects, which are rarely touched by such events, suffered catastrophic losses. The Permian-Triassic mass extinction, as it’s known, was the greatest of…

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'Mega' El Niño may have fueled Earth's biggest mass extinction

Volcanoes spewing carbon dioxide 250 million years ago heated the climate so much that extreme El Niño events became the norm, pushing most life on Earth past its limits.

The Conversation

El Niño may have ended, but its legacy is greater hunger in sub-Saharan Africa

Rising food prices are causing more and more people to go hungry in sub-Saharan Africa. My new research shows that an overlooked cause could be El Niño, a climate phenomenon in the Pacific that affects weather patterns globally.

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Drought is devastating southern Africa’s crops: why it’s happening and what can be learned

Southern Africa’s worst drought in years has destroyed crops of the staple food, maize, across the region. Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho and Namibia have all been affected by the drought. Crop failures in South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe – the largest maize producers in southern Africa –…

The Conversation

After a streak of record-breaking global temperatures, the climate is on a knife-edge

For 13 consecutive months, global average air and ocean temperatures were probably the hottest they have been in human history.

The Conversation

Earth has just ended a 13-month streak of record heat – here’s what to expect next

A 13-month streak of record-breaking global warmth has ended.

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Earth's Record-Breaking Heat Streak Ends, Climate Change Threat Persists

July 2024 ends Earth's 13-month heat record streak due to El Niño waning, highlighting ongoing global warming crisis.

Texas Observer

Earth Is Still Breaking Heat Records

And 2024 could be the hottest year on record.

The Conversation

Is Australia’s climate confusing you? Here’s why rainfall and temperatures don’t always behave as expected

In the past few years in Australia, seasonal rainfall and temperatures have left a lot of people confused. Sometimes, the hot, dry conditions usually associated with an El Niño have not eventuated. Similarly, there have been years where a La Niña did not lead to the cool, wet conditions expected.

LiveScience

There's a 2nd El Niño — and scientists just figured out how it works

A new simulation shows that an El Niño-like climate pattern begins near New Zealand and Australia, and can trigger temperature changes across the Southern Hemisphere.

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