'Super' El Niño is coming. What should you expect?
A new scientific study using coral records from the Galapagos reveals that El Niño events have grown 36% more intense in the past 50 years compared to pre-industrial times, strongly correlating with rising global temperatures. This suggests a human fingerprint on El Niño’s increasing stre
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