Developing El Niño becomes strongest on record weeks before expected peak
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- NZ Herald World·10h agoEl Niño could cause 451,000 extra heat deaths – research
Developing countries are expected to suffer the greatest heat-related toll.
Read at NZ Herald World → - RNZ World NZ·10h agoClimate: Report predicts El Niño death toll of almost half a million
"A very dangerous situation" is how one of the world's top climate scientists is describing the next six months ahead.
Read at RNZ World NZ → - CBC World News·12h agoEl Niño-driven heat could cause half a million extra deaths, report says. Here's where
This year's powerful El Niño and the record global heat it's driving, along with severe droughts, wildfires and shrinking water supplies, could lead to nearly half a million more deaths worldwide by the end of February, according to a research report released Wednesday.
Read at CBC World News → - Irish Examiner World·21h agoHuge El Niño projected to result in more than 450,000 fatalities over next six months
The El Niño currently heating up the planet burst through the highest temperature ever recorded for the phenomenon on Monday, several months before its expected peak.
Read at Irish Examiner World → - Scientific American·1d agoThis year’s El Niño just broke another sobering record
“This is probably going to be the superlative El Niño event of our lives so far,” a climate scientist says
Read at Scientific American → - BBC Science·1d agoDeveloping El Niño becomes strongest on record weeks before expected peak
Scientists say the developing El Niño is now the strongest on record with weather impacts already being felt around the world.
Read at BBC Science → - The Independent·1d ago‘Unprecedented’ El Nino is already breaking weather records before peak, Met Office warns
The weather phenomenon has previously been termed a ‘super’ or even ‘Godzilla’ El Niño
Read at The Independent →
