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.

Every El Niño is different, but typically the stronger the event, the greater its global impact. The 2015–16 El Niño was no exception, with wide-ranging effects felt around the world. El Niño also ...

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 ...

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 ...

Combined with this warming are changes in the atmosphere that affect weather patterns ... cause in ocean currents. Map showing departures from average ocean surface temperatures in December 1997 at ...

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 ...

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 ...

This historic trend of global warming ... greenhouse gas effect is and what it tells us about the impact of human emissions on the planet; how scientists know natural phenomena such as the sun or the ...

But while it has edged out one of the big contributors to the record-breaking global temperatures ... already under strain due to the effects of climate change. How El Nino causes weather ...