The Latest Breaking News from El Niño

Hospital admissions for injuries directly attributable to extreme weather events – such as heatwaves, bushfires and storms – have increased in Australia over the past decade.

Every few years, the trade winds that blow from east to west weaken, allowing that warm water to slosh eastward.

The drought plaguing the Amazon is a worrying portrait of the climate challenges facing the world. The combination of the El Niño phenomenon and anthropogenic climate change has played a significant role in accentuating this extreme weather event. The Amazon region, known for its lush rainforest and flowing rivers, is…

Winter is still weeks away, but meteorologists are already talking about a snowy winter ahead in the southern Rockies and the Sierra Nevada. They anticipate more storms in the U.S. South and Northeast, and warmer, drier conditions across the already dry Pacific Northwest and the upper Midwest.

Climate scientists have detected a striking jump in global temperatures during 2023. September was 1.75°C above Earth’s pre-industrial average temperature and a whole half-degree celsius warmer than the previous hottest September.

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.

The world is very warm right now. We’re not only seeing record temperatures, but the records are being broken by record-wide margins.

The carbon emissions driving the climate crisis and rapid arrival of an El Niño event are to blame, researchers say

Some parts of the country exceeded normal daily maximum temperatures for the peak of summer