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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.

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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