The Latest Breaking News from El Niño

Dangerous heat and elevated risks of wildfires are present in parts of the West, with climate change and El Niño both playing a role. Meanwhile, thunderstorms threaten the Midwest and the East Coast.

World Meteorological Organization warns of record temperatures and extreme heat in environmental ‘double whammy’

In today’s newsletter: Why temperatures are increasing so quickly and what that could mean for the future

The research found flood sediments only on the eastern side of a desert wall built almost 1,000 years ago.

Planet is being hit by double whammy of global heating and emerging El Niño

Ocean temperatures have been off the charts since mid-March 2023, with the highest average levels in 40 years of satellite monitoring, and the impact is breaking through in disruptive ways around the world.

Recent spikes in ocean heat content and average global air temperature have left climate scientists across the world scrambling to find the cause. The global average air temperature, relative to 1850-1900, exceeded the 1.5℃ lower Paris Agreement threshold during part of March and the first days of June. This last…

El Niño is likely to intensify in the second half of this year, affecting investment sentiment in the agribusiness, food and water management sectors, analysts say.

The climate pattern El Niño — Spanish for “the little boy” — is back. But despite its reputation, it is not malevolent or even automatically bad.