El Nino exerts powerful control on Earth's climate today. Evidence from the past shows it can be volatile and undergo lasting change. How will it affect us ... weather on a global scale.

Three recent studies reveal how the interplay between El Niño and long-term global warming drove the record-breaking global ...

Last year, 2024, was the warmest year on record for the planet, easily breaking the previous record set just a year earlier.

In 2025, another phenomenon known as La Niña (Spanish for "the girl") could emerge to slightly cool global ... El Niño and La Niña are two opposing climate conditions in the Pacific Ocean that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Both weather patterns can have a huge impact on global agriculture and the well-being of billions of people around the world, already under strain due to the effects of climate change. El Nino ...

Kenya last experienced the effects of El Nino ... "Expectations of El Nino's return following a sustained period of La Nina, which lowered global temperatures and caused persistent drought in ...