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 ...
The sugar-growing areas of Mpumalanga are dry but sugar producers in the province irrigate and have done so this year without the power disruptions of the past. But for the national harvest, that has ...
The El Niño event, a huge blob of warm ocean water in the tropical Pacific Ocean that can change rainfall patterns around the globe, isn't just a modern phenomenon. A new modeling study from a ...
Disruptions are common. During El Niño events, the trade winds become weaker than usual, and the warm water blob floats easterly towards South America. For the Southeast, El Niño cycles are ...