Tag: Niño

Cuts to US ocean programme will hinder monitoring of El Niño and AMOC

One of the Ocean Observatories Initiative’s mooring spheres being lifted out of the sea Rebecca Travis / Woods

The looming El Niño could be bad – but much worse is to come

Waves supercharged by El Niño hit the California coast in 2016 Eliason/Zuma Wire/Shutterstock Newspaper headlines have been buzzing

Is a super El Niño imminent, and what could the impacts be?

A super El Niño led to flooding in China in 1998 ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images Recent weather

El Niño was linked to famines in Europe in the early modern period

El Niño events led to crop failures in some parts of Europe and raised grain prices elsewherePublic Domain