Ancient El Niño? Mysterious climate cycle blamed for millennia of chaotic weather.
El Niño is a natural climate pattern where surface sea water temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean ...
Modeling experiments show weather-changing El Niño oscillation is at least 250 million years old
The El Niño event, a huge blob of warm ocean water in the tropical Pacific Ocean that can change rainfall patterns around the ...
Duke Scientists Uncover Stronger, Ancient Versions of El Niño and La Niña
Modeling experiments reveal that warm and cold patches in the Pacific persisted, regardless of the shifting positions of ...
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El Niño climate shifts date back 250 million years
Discover how the El Niño and La Niña climate oscillation has shaped Earth's weather for over 250 million years.
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Ancient El Niños were much stronger: 250M years of Earth’s climate swings revealed
New research reveals that El Niño, the periodic warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean, has been shaping Earth's climate for ...
Southern Africa is enduring its worst hunger crisis in decades due to El Niño, the UN says
The United Nations' food agency says months of drought in southern Africa triggered by the El Niño weather phenomenon have ...
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New research suggests how El Niño caused the greatest mass extinction in history — and how it affects weather patterns today
"Only species that could migrate quickly could survive, and there weren't many plants or animals that could do that." ...
What is the difference between El Niño and La Niña climate phenomena?
The differences between the two common weather systems create the conditions that cause the disastrous hurricanes that have ...
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Weather-Changing El Niño Oscillation Is at Least 250 Million Years Old
A new modeling study from a pair of Duke University researchers and their colleagues shows that the oscillation between El ...
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What to expect from this year’s weak La Niña winter in the Black Hills
RAPID CITY, S.D. - Last winter, we experienced an El Niño season, and this year, we’ll be dealing with a weak La Niña. But ...