NASA data shows global sea levels are rising faster than expected. Most of the rise in 2024 came from ocean warming, not ...

Global sea level rose faster than expected in 2024, mostly because of ocean water expanding as it warms, or thermal expansion ...

La Niña is the cold phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, or ENSO. This pattern occurs when water temperatures around ...

As global warming progresses, this layer becomes thinner, making it easier for winds and ocean currents to move warm water ...

A small area of the southwestern Pacific Ocean, near New Zealand and Australia ... such as the warming El Niño pattern of currents and trade winds, or its opposite, cooling phase, La Niña.

El Nino exerts powerful control on Earth's climate ... More fundamentally, he reasoned that the ocean and atmosphere acted as a coupled system such that changes in one drove changes in the other ...

The weak La Niña event that emerged in December 2024 is likely to be short-lived, according to the latest World ...

Given that the weather phenomenon can override others such as El Niño and La Niña, researchers at the Scripps Institution of ...

El Niño has important effects on the world’s economies—and not all of them are bad The current El Niño (Spanish for “The Boy”)—a band of above-average ocean surface temperatures that develops every 3 ...

El Niño and La Niña are patterns of warmer- and cooler-than-seasonal water temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean around the equator. These anomalies have a major influence on weather ...

The current record holder is 2016, which also had a strong El Niño. Scientists are extremely concerned about how quickly the ocean is warming ... In addition, "if this El Nino tips into the ...

Scientists were somewhat surprised when the world notched its warmest January on record this year despite the presence of a ...