La Niña is a part of the El Niño southern oscillation, a climate fluctuation that slowly sloshes vast bodies of water and ...

The past two years have seen month after month become the planet's hottest recorded. Climate scientists say human-produced ...

Earth’s prolonged streak of abnormal heat continued into 2025 despite the arrival of La Niña ocean conditions, which ...

There are other factors turning up the heat. The El Niño pattern that began in 2023 added around 0.1 or 0.2 degrees Celsius, before the inverse La Niña pattern took over in December 2024.

Three recent studies reveal how the interplay between El Niño and long-term global warming drove the record-breaking global ...

The La Nina and El Nino weather phases are part of the so-called El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a climate pattern triggered in the Pacific Ocean that involves changes in wind and ocean ...

It comes against a backdrop of new US president Donald Trump vowing to end previous leader Joe Biden’s policies of “climate ...

Lately, it's been cold and wet, but La Niña's cooler Pacific Ocean waters near the equator foretell a warmer, drier winter ...

Scientists link global warming to lower sulfur pollution from ships. Fewer ship aerosols mean less sunlight reflection, allowing heat to stay.

El Nino and La Nina are primary contributors in the large-scale pattern that concentrate the threat for tornadoes in the plains and in Dixie Alley. June 2024 sea surface temperature difference ...

STORY: Last month was the world's warmest January on record, continuing a streak of extreme global temperatures. The global average temperature in January was 1.75C higher than in pre-industrial times ...

A weak La Nina event has arrived in the Pacific, bringing colder waters and potentially cooler weather. Despite being delayed ...