The Latest Breaking News from El Niño

Insects are arguably the most important animals on the planet. Their variety is unparalleled in nature, and they carry out vital tasks such as pollinating plants and providing food for other animals.

A weak polar vortex could make for a harsh winter in Germany. Experts are currently still divided, but warn it could be particularly frosty after Christmas.

Seeing the north coast of Peru for the first time, you would be hard-pressed to believe it’s one of the driest deserts in the world.

El Niño, a climate troublemaker, has long been one of the largest drivers of variability in the global climate. Every few years, the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean seesaws between warm (El Niño) and cold (La Niña) phases. This reshuffles rainfall patterns, unleashing floods, droughts and storms thousands of miles from…

January 2025 was the hottest on record – a whole 1.7°C above pre-industrial levels. If many climate-watchers expected the world to cool slightly this year thanks to the natural “La Niña” phenomena, the climate itself didn’t seem to get the memo. In fact, January 2025’s record heat highlights how human-driven…

The unusual burial of a woman and fetus in prehistoric Ecuador may reflect the community's fear of her power.

Data for 2024 shows humanity is moving yet deeper into a dangerous world of supercharged extreme weather

The oceans are heating up as the planet warms.

This year will be one of the hottest ever. It’ll probably feature horrendous extreme weather, crop failures and a further crackdown on climate activism.