While La Niña is currently holding its own, the expectation is that an El Niño will develop by the peak of hurricane season. Here's why that's a big deal.

A new study calculated that an unusual recent twist in the warming and cooling cycle that includes El Niño and its ...

Concern around Lake Mead, a reservoir formed on the Colorado River, and its water levels have been ongoing for some time.

The Pacific Ocean is warming so quickly that scientists had to find a new method for detecting and predicting El Niño and La Niña events.

The first El Niño in three years could develop during the coming months, raising the possibility of worsening drought and ...

Forecasters might soon be able to predict El Niño events years in advance. The catch? Those events will pack a much harder punch. Research suggests that by the second half of this century, El Niño ...

As I noted a few months back, despite the end of El Niño conditions in May, global temperatures have remained worryingly elevated. This raises the question of whether this reflects unusual El Niño ...

After a year of dominance, El Niño’s wrath has come to end — but its climate-churning counterpart, La Niña, is hot on its heels and could signal a return to dryness for California. El Niño is the warm ...

El Niño has officially come to an end and the ripples from its demise will shake up weather around the globe. El Niño – a natural climate pattern marked by warmer than average ocean temperatures in ...

Each El Niño event is unique, and the exact weather disruptions it triggers can't be fully predicted until the event begins. However, organizations like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...