The picture in the central Pacific, though, is murkier. Line Islands corals show a similar mean increase but far wider scatter, which the researchers partly attribute to these records’ reliance on oxy...
In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, along the equator, scientists have drawn a box. It’s a big box, two-thirds the size of China, yet hardly anyone lives inside it. This rectangular swath of open ocea...
In February 1998, almost a year’s worth of rain fell in downtown Los Angeles, as a series of powerful Pacific storms rocked California amid a “Super” El Niño. Deadly landslides struck Southern and Cen...
The El Niño event that is developing over the Pacific Ocean is likely to be the strongest in living memory, the Met Office has warned. The powerful natural climate phenomenon pushes up global temperat...