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Climate scientists warn of wild weather in the year ahead as El Niño begins
El Niño expected to increase drought, floods and other extreme events, and cause a hot summer in the UKClimate scientists have warned of wild weather in the year ahead as the start of the global "El...
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It looks like El Niño is back – what will it mean for our weather?
Is the world's weather about to change? And will it get better or worse?With sea-surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific at least 1C above average, it looks like El Niño is back. This cyclic...
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World will warm faster than predicted in next five years, study warns
New estimate based on the forthcoming upturn in solar activity and El Niño southern oscillation cycles is expected to silence global warming scepticsThe world faces record-breaking temperatures as the...
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Sunken steel cages could save coral reefs
• Low-level electric current attracts coral to structure• Maldives resort reports encouraging growthScientists are reporting encouragingly rapid coral growth on giant underwater steel cages –...
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How global warming sealed the fate of the world's coral reefs
Destroyed by rising carbon levels, acidity, pollution, algae, bleaching and El Niño, coral reefs require a dramatic change in our carbon policy to have any chance of survival, report warnsAnimal,...
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Ocean surfaces have warmest summer on record, US report finds
• El Niño contributed largely to rise in temperatures• Average temperatures rose to 16.9CThe world's ocean surfaces had their warmest summer temperatures on record, the US national climatic data centre...
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Adelaide latest victim of global water shortages
Australia's fifth-largest city could be reliant on bottled water as early as next week as overuse and drought stretch the Murray river to its limitThe water in Australia's biggest river is running so...
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Ancient Peruvian Nazca turned land to desert
Lessons to be learned from Nazca civilisation, which exposed itself to floods after mass deforestation, research saysThe ancient Nazca civilisation of Peru, made famous by the giant geoglyphs it left...
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The resurgence of El Niño means that 2010 could yet be the hottest year on...
Despite the big freeze Britain's climate is getting distinctly warmer – and we may feel it this summerIt may be a hard notion to accept after a week that has seen the nation paralysed by snow and ice....
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Hugo Chávez left in the dark as El Niño plays power politics
Weather is causing all kinds of havoc in VenezuelaHugo Chávez may be wondering, as Venezuela's taps run dry and its cities fall into darkness, whether God is on the side of the Yankees.The El Niño...
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Drought extinguishes Venezuela's lightning phenomenon
Lake Maracaibo left in darkness as drought caused by El Niño disrupts weather patterns that cause constant lightning storms In pictures: Venezuela's vanishing lightningDarkness rarely lasted long in...
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Australia floods: La Niña to blame
The country is in the in the grip of an unusually strong periodic climate phenomenon that brings heavy rainsThe devastating flooding in Queensland is the result of Australia being in the grip of an...
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Climate cycles linked to civil war, analysis shows
Changes in the global climate that cut food production triggered one-fifth of civil conflicts between 1950 and 2004Cyclical climatic changes double the risk of civil wars, with analysis showing that 50...
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Tuvalu drought could be dry run for dealing with climate change
Tiny nation is suffering from severe La Niña pattern but its problems run deeper with the risk of being swallowed whole by the Pacific OceanA light, taunting shower of rain fell in Funafuti recently....
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Peru's coffee growers turn carbon traders to save their farms from climate...
Global warming threatens the future of Peru's poorest coffee farmers, but one brand thinks it has found an answer on the financial marketsIn the foothills of the Andes, in the Sierra Piura region of...
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It looks like El Niño is back – what will it mean for our weather?
Is the world's weather about to change? And will it get better or worse?With sea-surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific at least 1C above average, it looks like El Niño is back. This cyclic...
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World will warm faster than predicted in next five years, study warns
New estimate based on the forthcoming upturn in solar activity and El Niño southern oscillation cycles is expected to silence global warming scepticsThe world faces record-breaking temperatures as the...
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Sunken steel cages could save coral reefs
• Low-level electric current attracts coral to structure• Maldives resort reports encouraging growthScientists are reporting encouragingly rapid coral growth on giant underwater steel cages –...
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How global warming sealed the fate of the world's coral reefs
Destroyed by rising carbon levels, acidity, pollution, algae, bleaching and El Niño, coral reefs require a dramatic change in our carbon policy to have any chance of survival, report warnsAnimal,...
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Ocean surfaces have warmest summer on record, US report finds
• El Niño contributed largely to rise in temperatures• Average temperatures rose to 16.9CThe world's ocean surfaces had their warmest summer temperatures on record, the US national climatic data centre...
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