Several factors make for high water levels, and they conspired to worsen the storm surge that flooded coastal areas from North Carolina to New York.
Articles on El Nino
Displaying 1 - 20 of 258 articles
Papua New Guinea’s frost disaster suggests heat and drought aren’t the only symptoms of a changing climate.
The climate science behind 2026’s super El Niño.
Aging levees and dams are only the beginning of the risks communities face. One of the biggest challenges is helping people manage the heat and storms.
Growers across the country are grappling with surging fuel prices and inconsistent rainfall.
This year’s El Niño is likely to be the strongest on record. That would boost some fruit supplies – but it could also push up wheat, sugar and beef prices.
Global warming is set to surpass the 1.5°C limit if governments worldwide fail to act.
A new study connects early winter heat high up on the plateau to the jet stream and, ultimately, storms headed for the US coast. The results could mean better forecasts.
El Niño can affect agriculture, marine life and economies in profound ways, including slowing commerce at the Panama Canal. This El Niño is likely to be the strongest in over a century.
After seven years of drought and one extraordinary wet winter, northwestern Africa now faces another season of uncertainty.
Cooler ocean temperatures east of the islands typically keep major hurricanes away, but El Niño is helping fuel this year’s risks.
As storms, wildfires, and floods strike in ever-closer succession, an architect with disaster risk science expertise explains why resilience is built between hazards, not during them.
It threatens to compound the worst effects of climate change.
Understanding the true magnitude of the current H5N1 outbreak is key to curbing its spread.
Scientists went to the heart of the El Niño pattern to learn from living and fossil corals. The results show El Niño’s intensifying coincides with global warming.
El Niño summers can mean less rain overall, but more extreme daily rainfall.
From global temperature records to drought risk in New Zealand, the developing climate pattern could have far-reaching consequences.
Wildfire smoke does not carry a passport. Canada cannot thin, log, rake or prescribe-burn its way out of a planetary crisis.
Pennsylvania logged 852 severe weather reports from March through June – more than double the 30-year average. A meteorologist explains what keeps the storms coming.
The response to the many problems facing the region has been set back by cuts in humanitarian aid.
Top contributors
-
ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor in Climate Science, ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, The University of Melbourne
-
Adjunct Professor (Practice) in the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University
-
Senior Research Associate, UNSW
-
Senior Climatologist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
-
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne
-
Distinguished Scholar, National Center for Atmospheric Research; Affiliate Faculty, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
-
Chief Research Scientist, Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO, CSIRO
-
Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO
-
Climate Scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
-
Climate scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
-
Lecturer, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne
-
Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Our Future Oceans and Scientia Professor in Oceanography, UNSW
-
Lecturer, Climate Science Geography, The University of Melbourne
-
Director of the Climate Hazards Center, University of California, Santa Barbara
-
Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO