which can have far-reaching effects on global weather patterns. Describing it simply, El Nino is when the ocean in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean gets warmer than usual. Whereas ...

However, when there's a record of a more intense El Niño, as there was in 2016, which we investigated, and again in 2024, meteorological and hydrological droughts become more severe in the forest.

El Niño has important effects on the world’s economies—and not all of them are bad The current El Niño (Spanish for “The Boy”)—a band of above-average ocean surface temperatures that develops every 3 ...

However, the effects of climate ... is thought to have originated as "El Niño de Navidad" centuries ago when Peruvian fishermen named the weather phenomenon after the newborn Christ.’ ...

The risk of fires in the Amazon is greater in regions where groundwater storage is compromised, especially when El Niño exacerbates the drought. Using satellite images and data from fires ...

‘The effects of El Niño often peak during December; it's name "the boy" is thought to have originated as "El Niño de Navidad" centuries ago when Peruvian fishermen named the weather phenomenon after ...

Stronger temperature anomalies make for stronger El Niño and La Niña events, which can have greater and more far-reaching effects around the world. An El Niño sees this wind pattern break down ...

On Thursday, a group of German scientists—Helge Goessling, Thomas Rackow, and Thomas Jung—released a paper that attempts to provide one. They present data that suggests the Earth is absorbing more ...

The El Niño drought has resulted in major lakes and dams supplying water in urban areas running low across Zimbabwe, ...