So what is El Niño? Or it's cousin, La Niña? First, the name. El Nino is Spanish for "the child" or "the little boy" more specifically. Douglas explains the name comes from the Christ Child ...

Climate troublemakers El Niño and La Niña have been around ... our future," study lead author Xiang Li of Duke University explained in an e-mail to USA TODAY. "Only by studying climate changes ...

Climate troublemakers El Niño and La Niña have been around for a long time. A really, really long time. A new study says the dance between El Niño and its counterpart, La Niña, was present on ...