The Latest Breaking News from El Niños

Extreme El Niños are coming. Reaching net zero sooner means facing fewer of them

The world is on the cusp of an historic El Niño, a climate pattern centred in the Pacific that could reshape weather across the planet.

The Conversation · Oct 13

What is El Niño, what causes it and can we reduce the risks?

This year’s ‘godzilla’ climate phenomenon has already broken temperature records. We ask a climate scientist what is happening

The Guardian - UK · Sep 26

The incoming ‘super’ El Niño will create chaos around the world – and we are far from ready for it

One of the biggest upheavals in a millennium is on its way, strengthened by the climate crisis. We need leaders who make things better not worse, says climate professor Bill McGuire

The Guardian - UK · Sep 15

El Niño forms in Pacific as experts say it will likely turbocharge extreme weather

Meteorologists in US predict it will be the strongest of century, while UN secretary-general calls it ‘urgent climate warning’

The Guardian - US · Jun 11

Volcano Were Blamed for the Greatest of Earth’s ‘Big Five’ Mass Extinctions — Scientists Might Have Been Wrong

A new study reveals that an El Niño weather pattern in the world’s major ocean added to climate chaos and led to extinctions spreading across the globe.

Inverse · Sep 21, 2024

Earth’s greatest mass extinction 250 million years ago shows what happens when El Niño gets out of control – new study

Around 252 million years ago, the world suddenly heated up. Over a geologically brief period of tens of thousands of years, 90% of species were wiped out. Even insects, which are rarely touched by such events, suffered catastrophic losses. The Permian-Triassic mass extinction, as it’s known, was the greatest of…

The Conversation · Sep 16, 2024

All El Niños will be extreme if climate change isn't slowed, study suggests

In a warmer world, every El Niño could look like today's most extreme events.

LiveScience · Jul 11, 2024

El Niño: what does it mean for Australia – and are more heatwaves and bushfires inevitable?

The UN has declared the world to be in the grip of the weather pattern but Australian scientists are not so sure. Why the uncertainty?

The Guardian - AU · Jul 8, 2023

Global heating has likely made El Niños and La Niñas more ‘frequent and extreme’, new study shows

Scientists say greenhouse gases have already affected climate patterns in the Pacific that could lead to more severe weather, floods and heatwaves

The Guardian - AU · May 18, 2023

The next El Niño: when is it coming and how strong might this one be for Australia?

After three wet La Niña years, an El Niño now looks likely, which could cut rainfall, raise temperatures and create nightmarish bushfire conditions

The Guardian - AU · Apr 17, 2023