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Topic: El Nino

Thwaites Glacier (NASA/JPL)

"Doomsday Glacier" began melting in '40s

Matthew Rozsa
A man rows his boat in Acapulco, Guerrero State, Mexico, on August 16, 2023, following the passage of Tropical Storm Hilary. (Getty Images / FRANCISCO ROBLES / AFP)

Hurricane threatens extreme flooding

Nicholas Grondin - The Conversation
A car is left stranded in widespread flooding as a series of atmospheric river storms melts record amounts of snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains on March 23, 2023 near Corcoran, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)

Global warming will alter La Niña forever

Matthew Rozsa
Canvas bags filled with food crops (Getty Images/Shaiith)

The connection between crops and El Niño

David Ubilava - The Conversation
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A field of half-dried sunflowers in a field during a heat wave, September 12 2022, Búger, Spain (Clara Margais/picture alliance via Getty Images)

El Niño is a preview for global warming

Kate Yoder - Grist
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Global warming made 2017 super hot

Matthew Rozsa

2017: second-hottest year

Andrea Thompson - Climate Central
(AP Photo/David Goldman, File) (AP)

May continues warm streak

Brian Kahn - Climate Central
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(AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)

NOAA: busy hurricane season

Andrea Thompson - Climate Central
(AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Kate Yoder - Grist
FILE - In this Sunday, May 31, 2015, file photo, an Indian drinks water from a bottle on a hot summer day in Allahabad, India. India is launching programs to protect people from extreme heat in two high-risk cities, after a devastating heat wave killed at least 2,500 people across the country last year. (AP/Rajesh Kumar Singh, file)

Andrea Thompson - Climate Central
FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2016, file photo, women run as the sun sets in San Diego. Winter, especially in the southern half of the state, has been dry, and rain and snowfall in the weeks ahead would have to be extensive to make up lost ground in the state, even with the current forecast of a series of early March storms heading directly toward California. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File) (AP)

Andrea Thompson - Climate Central
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People enter the water near Huntington Beach Pier, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016, in Huntington Beach, Calif. El Nino storms lined up in the Pacific, promising to drench parts of the West for more than two weeks and increasing fears of mudslides and flash floods in regions stripped bare by wildfires. (Mark Rightmire(/The Orange County Register via AP) MAGS OUT; LOS ANGELES TIMES OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT (AP)

Andrea Thompson - Climate Central

Bracing for El Niño

Simon Winchester

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Andrea Thompson - Climate Central
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(Katerina Planina/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams

Simeon Tegel - GlobalPost
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Lindsay Abrams
(AP Photo/Orange County Register, Bruce Chambers)

Lindsay Abrams
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Alex Kane - Alternet
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Brian Kahn

Simeon Tegel
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