Snow in the hills outside Los Angeles, move over. There’s a new freak weather event in town.
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El Niño has looked “imminent” since October, but the wait is over. Happy Valentines Day-Niño to all the climate…
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The wait for El Niño continues, but scientists are already gearing up for its impacts. Chief among those is how it…
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After nearly four months of waiting for El Niño, the switch is likely to be flipped on this winter. Rejoice, my…
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My eastern tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures watchers, get hype. An El Niño Watch is in effect.
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There’s a mad scramble underway in the scientific community to learn everything possible about the imperiled West…
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Earth’s tropical forests hoard huge amounts of carbon, but as temperatures rise and weather patterns shift due to…
Remember the halcyon days of 2016, when we were bidding adieu to El Niño and recovering from the death of Harambe?…
New data presented today by the NOAA and NASA shows that global temperatures hit a record high for the third…
It teased us with the possibility of a no-show this summer, but a weak La Niña has officially arrived, according to…
After promising biblical rains and instead giving California crabs, El Niño passed away quietly last spring. But…
The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration has just released an update on the state of the Earth’s coral reefs,…
The now-dead El Niño wreaked serious havoc upon our food supply, from poisoning shellfish to obliterating stone…
The strongest El Niño ever seen is finally gone. But before it left it had plenty to throw at us: Storms, droughts, b…
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These days, when we’re talking about reservoirs and lakes in California, it’s normally using words like “historic…
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If scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef is on your bucket list, you might want to book tickets soon. This week,…
El Niño is almost over, but the wreckage of things it knocked over in its wake continues—and one of those things is…
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El Niño is almost ready to give way for the rise of its cold counterpart, La Niña. But before it goes, it has one…
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The latest forecast for El Niño is out, and it’s looking like we’ve seen the worst of it already. But as it fades,…
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Two years ago, a huge, inexplicable hot patch of water appeared in the Pacific Ocean, and stayed right through the…
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