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Forecasters Predict Below-Average Hurricane Season, Advise Against Complacency

The forecasters said an expected El Niño was poised to temper hurricane activity in the Atlantic, but they urged preparedness.

By Amy Green

A woman clears debris near a damaged building on Oct. 29, 2025, following the passage of Hurricane Melissa in Black River, Jamaica. Credit: Ricardo Makyn/AFP via Getty Images
Water sits 30 or more feet below the base of a fishing pier at Lake Corpus Christi on April 28. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Corpus Christi Postpones Water Emergency to December as ‘Super El Niño’ Offers an End to Drought

By Dylan Baddour, Emily Salazar

People cross a section of collapsed road during flash flooding linked to El Niño conditions on Nov. 22, 2023, near Garissa, Kenya. Credit: Luis Tato/AFP via Getty Images

As El Niño Approaches, Scientists Predict Fierce Heatwaves, Wildfires and Floods

By Bob Berwyn

People flee a U.N. base, where gunmen opened fire on South Sudanese civilians sheltering inside, in the town of Malakal on Feb. 18, 2016. Scientists tracing links between climate impacts and conflicts found that some regions can tip toward violence when they reach extreme drought tipping points. Credit: Justin Lynch/AFP via Getty Images

Some Climate Shocks Can Increase the Likelihood of War

By Bob Berwyn

The 2024 El Niño in the Tropical Pacific, combined with human-caused warming, dried out vast tracts of the Amazon region, crushing livelihoods and displacing people, and also flipped some forests to release more carbon dioxide than they absorb and store, a “regime shift” in the Amazon carbon cycle. Credit: Luis Acosta/AFP via Getty Images

The Next El Niño Could Lock Earth Into a Hotter Climate

By Bob Berwyn

In Southern Brazil, Rescue Efforts Continue as Ongoing Flooding Leaves Hundreds of Thousands Displaced

By Kiley Price

A woman reacts as a wildfire burns at Palem Raya Regency in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatera, Indonesia on September 18, 2023. Indonesian authorities are struggling to put out forest and land fires that have been engulfing many parts of the country, including fire-prone regions in Sumatra and Borneo, as the country enters the hottest day of this year's El Nino-induced dry season Credit: Muhammad A.F/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Scientists Disagree About Drivers of September’s Global Temperature Spike, but It Has Most of Them Worried

By Bob Berwyn

A pair of raccoon butterflyfish swim the reef off Palmyra Atoll while a scientific diver conducts research in the area as part of a month-long expedition to study the health of the reefs associated with the Line Islands, which are remotely located in the Pacific Ocean close to the equator. Credit: Rick Loomis/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.

In the Pacific, Some Coral Survived the Last El Nino, Thanks to Ocean Currents

By Lydia Larsen

Wildfire smoke hovers over the Pacific coast of northern New South Wales, Australia in September 2019. Credit: Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data/Gallo Images via Getty Images

How Wildfire Smoke from Australia Affected Climate Events Around the World

By Bob Berwyn

Crew members land a boat in front of residential homes after surveying floodwaters in Windsor on March 9, 2022 during flooding in Sydney, Australia. Credit: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images

Shifts in El Niño May Be Driving Climates Extremes in Both Hemispheres

By Bob Berwyn

Anthony Aco and Troy Sacaguin, left to right, check out the thermometer at Calvary Church in Woodland Hills as it registers 117 degrees Fahrenheit on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020 in Woodland Hills, California. Credit: Al Seib/Los Angeles Times

2020 Ties 2016 as Earth’s Hottest Year on Record, Even Without El Niño to Supercharge It

By Bob Berwyn

Researchers have found a pattern between sea ice melting and El Niño in the Central Pacific Ocean, linked by winds. Credit: Kathryn Hansen/NASA

Dwindling Arctic Sea Ice May Affect Tropical Weather Patterns

By Bob Berwyn

Temperature rise

The Lethal Effects of Climate Change

By Robert Krier, InsideClimate News

Pier damage from a powerful 2002 storm at San Diego's Ocean Beach

Weather Insider: What La Nina-El Nino Shift Means

By Robert Krier, InsideClimate News

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