Galapagos corals suggest climate change drives stronger El Niños
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Researchers sample corals growing near the Galapagos IslandsNOAA
A super El Niño that is gathering strength in the Pacific Ocean may have been made worse by climate change, according to new analysis of coral records that suggest El Niños have become more intense as global temperatures have climbed.
The impacts of El Niño – droughts, floods and storms – are already exacerbated by rising global temperatures, because a warmer atmosphere intensifies both rainfall and droughts.
But scientist
A super El Niño that is gathering strength in the Pacific Ocean may have been made worse by climate change, according to new analysis of coral records that suggest El Niños have become more intense as global temperatures have climbed.
The impacts of El Niño – droughts, floods and storms – are already exacerbated by rising global temperatures, because a warmer atmosphere intensifies both rainfall and droughts.
But scientist
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