El Niño and La Niña are climate phenomena that are generally associated with wetter and drier winter conditions in the ...

for example. The La Nina and El Nino weather phases are part of the so-called El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a climate pattern triggered in the Pacific Ocean that involves changes in wind ...

White-faced capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica who experienced more intense physiological responses to mild droughts were more fit to survive extreme drought, researchers found in a new UCLA-led study.

El Nino exerts powerful control on Earth's climate ... Figure 4), or a hyperactive state in which they are amplified (La Niña). Suppose for example that the easterly winds subside briefly ...

The winter weather of 2023-24 has been an oddity in every sense of the word. The Twin Cities area has barely seen any snow, and record-breaking warm temperatures have continued from December, when ...

January was expected to be cooler than the same month last year, but was 0.1C warmer, which experts are struggling to explain ...

(KTLA) – El Niño is here, but can you tell ... Take a look at the latest seasonal outlook released in December, for example. The government’s climatologists said there is a slight chance ...

Modeling experiments show Pacific warm and cold patches persisted even when continents were in different places The El Niño event, a huge blob of warm ocean water in the tropical Pacific Ocean that ...

La Niña is part of a natural climate dynamic, along with the better-known El Niño, called El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO). La Niña is ENSO’s cool phase, while El Niño is its warm phase.

The El Niño drought that spread across Central ... This knowledge can be useful for conservation reasons. For example, a population of highly endangered animals that cannot quickly adapt to ...