The 2015–16 El Niño was no exception, with wide-ranging effects felt around the world. El Niño also added to the globe’s warming trend, making 2015 the world’s hottest calendar year on record.

El Nino exerts powerful control on Earth's climate ... Niño" early Peruvians undoubtedly also recognized its beneficial effects. While the warming of coastal waters banished marine life and ...

governments should take into consideration the likelihood and effects of El Niño episodes when formulating macroeconomic policy, and implement policies that could help ameliorate the adverse effects ...

Stronger temperature anomalies make for stronger El Niño and La Niña events, which can have greater and more far-reaching effects around the world. An El Niño sees this wind pattern break down ...

El Niño events can have knock-on effects on weather in the UK – with El Niño years linked to a risk of colder winters in Britain. El Niño and La Nina effects are opposite, broadly speaking ...

The event will likely last until next spring, after which its impacts will recede. What is El Niño? World likely to warm beyond key 1.5C limit by 2027 How is my country doing tackling climate change?

However, when there's a record of a more intense El Niño, as there was in 2016, which we investigated, and again in 2024, meteorological and hydrological droughts become more severe in the forest.