Map shows how El Nino conditions will affect food production in different parts of the world. Purple represents positive impacts on crop yields, while orange represents severe negative impacts.

El Nino is a Spanish word that means "little boy" or "Christ Child." The phenomenon was named El Niño because South American fishermen first observed it in the early 17th century. The name was ...

By The New York Times El Niño is back. In July, the World Meteorological Organization announced that conditions for the cyclical climate phenomenon had developed in the tropical Pacific ...

New research from scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography finds that atmospheric rivers explain the majority of atypical El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) years ...

Typical El Niño winter weather pattern (NOAA) But nothing is guaranteed with El Niño, explained Michelle L’Heureux, a scientist at the Climate Prediction Center. We’re always speaking in ...

Climate troublemakers El Niño and La Niña have been around ... our future," study lead author Xiang Li of Duke University explained in an e-mail to USA TODAY. "Only by studying climate changes ...

Earth is under an “El Niño watch” as scientists eye signs ... La Niña also encourages active Atlantic hurricane seasons. The explanation ties back to the warm eastern Pacific waters.

A new simulation shows that an El Niño-like climate pattern begins ... especially in the Southern Hemisphere," Senapati said. "It might help explain climate changes that were previously ...

In fact, our recent El Nino winter season of 2018-2019 produced snowfall close to 30 inches, about 6-7 inches below average. The 2014-2015 winter was one ofthe snowiest in recent memory ...