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Is Climate Change Supercharging El Niño?

19 June 2026 at 16:52
As a new, potentially record-breaking El Niño begins, researchers are vigorously debating whether climate change is driving the phenomenon’s intensity.

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Fighting a wildfire in South Sumatra, Indonesia, during an El Niño-exacerbated dry season in 2023.

NOAA Issues El Nino Advisory

12 June 2026 at 08:59
The global weather pattern threatens to worsen floods and heat waves already intensifying due to climate change. But it may also mean fewer hurricanes.

E.U. Steps Up Ocean Monitoring as Trump Administration Backs Away

3 June 2026 at 23:01
Days after the U.S. said it would kill a network of ocean monitors, European officials pledged to invest more in their version, calling it a “necessity.”

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The European plan to invest roughly $107 million comes as the U.S. has said it would dismantle a sprawling network of sensors.

A Powerful El Niño Is Forming. If History Is a Guide, It Could Hit Hard.

21 May 2026 at 18:36
The biggest episodes of the past have altered the course of human events, according to researchers. An emerging one is drawing historic comparisons.

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An illustration published in 1877 depicted a scene in southern India. Millions died from a famine that coincided with an El Niño that year.
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