El Niño Is Back. And Worse Than Ever.
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El Niño Is Back. And Worse Than Ever.

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 19, 202623 min

The global chaos agent known as El Niño is back, and this year it’s already on track to be, by far, the strongest and most severe on record, wreaking havoc on weather across the world. Today, Chico Harlan, the global climate reporter for The New York Times, goes over El Niño’s history, its inner workings and its increasingly destructive fallout. Guest: Chico Harlan, the global climate correspondent for The New York Times. Background reading: El Niño, the Pacific climate shift that comes around once or twice a decade...

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From The New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro. This is The Daily. A powerful Super El Nino event is right now brewing deep within the Pacific Ocean. The meteorological wrecking ball that is El Nino is back.

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