Coral archives reveal a shift in El Niño strength
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Coral archives reveal a shift in El Niño strength

B2中高级2026年9月25日16分钟
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The El Niño underway in the Pacific Ocean has been called extraordinary, supersized and likely record-breaking. And while El Niño is a natural climate phenomenon, its warming effects are being boosted by climate change. Julia Cole, a paleoclimatologist at the University of Michigan, recently used corals growing around the Galapagos Islands to create a local temperature record of the ocean going back 1,000 years to add to what they've learned from similar studies elsewhere in the Pacific. She said the temperature record in this area of the East Pacific indicates that the El Niños from the last 40 to...

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The developing El Nino climate phenomenon is now the strongest on record according to scientists monitoring Pacific Ocean temperatures. This El Nino is set to be the strongest in records dating back 150 years and the Met Office says its impacts are already being felt.

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The latest projections for this year's El Nino are being called nothing short of extraordinary. Climate scientists are forecasting the worst El Nino in recorded history that could peak near 4 degrees Celsius above normal this November. El Nino's are a naturally occurring phenomenon that heat the waters of the eastern Pacific

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Ocean and impact global weather patterns. Many sectors will be affected. Agriculture, trade, fisheries, health, energy, transport, water resources, disaster management, to name but a few. It is a risk multiplier and we expect to see health impacts across the world.

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