The current El Niño has now attained "super" El Nino status, but its counterpart, La Niña, is expected later this year.

January 2025 was the hottest on record—a whole 1.7°C above pre-industrial levels. If many climate-watchers expected the world ...

After months of delay, the cool La Niña climate pattern has emerged in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, which increases ...

In an El Niño year, air pressure drops along the coast of South America and over large areas of the central Pacific. The typical low pressure system in the western Pacific becomes a weak high pressure ...

Violent weather exacerbated by climate change fueled hunger and food insecurity across Latin America and the Caribbean in ...

From the intense heat in the South to the drought ... It’s pretty consistent with El Niño to have a big ridge of high pressure that comes out of Central America. And at times, we’ve seen ...

La Niña, the periodic cooling of Pacific Ocean waters, has finally arrived, but forecasters predict it is weak and unlikely to cause as many weather problems as typically seen.

The El Niño drought that spread across Central and South America from 2014 to 2016 was the biggest in recent history and led to the deaths of many monkeys. While devastating for the monkeys and ...

January 2025 saw record global temperatures despite La Niña conditions, with wetter and drier regions experiencing extreme ...

After much of the world experienced the hottest year on record in 2024, the U.S. has seen a lot of cold and snow for January. This warmth was partly fueled by a strong El Nino that peaked last year ...

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