El Nino

El Nino

Insufficient rainfall during the monsoon season in Bangladesh, caused by El Niño, profoundly impacts rain-fed staple crop production. Photo: Sikder Ahmed

'Supersized' El Niño may become strongest ever recorded, UN says

A very strong El Niño can significantly shift rainfall and temperature patterns worldwide, and fuel extreme weather, such as droughts and typhoons.

The Cotopaxi volcano is seen near Quito, Ecuador, August 10, 2015. REUTERS/Guillermo Granja/File Photo

Ecuador declares emergency over El Nino

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El Salvador, Panama sound alarm on El Nino-fueled drought

Prime Minister Andy Burnham stands beside Met Office Chief Meteorologist Will Lang as he listens to Chief Forecaster Dan Harris during a visit to the Met Office in Exeter, UK, 14 August 2026. Photo: Collected

UK forecaster predicts strongest El Niño in living memory

A drone view shows a harvester working in a soybean plantation in San Andres de Giles, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 12 May 2025. Photo:Reuters.

How will Latin America's super El Niño affect the top food-exporting region?

Members of Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) fire brigade work to extinguish a fire rising in Amazon rainforest in Apui, Amazonas state, Brazil, August 8, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Adriano Machado

Brazil's natural areas shrink, worsening El Nino impact

Representational Image of wheat. Photo: Collected

Decades of farm gains, inventories strengthen food system against 'super' El Nino

A drone view shows a farmer collecting crystallised salt from a pond floor during harvest in Pengarengan village, Cirebon, West Java province, Indonesia, July 31, 2026. Photo: REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan

Indonesia’s salt fields bloom under drought from El Niño’s baking heat

Combines harvest wheat in a field amid Russia's attack on Ukraine in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, 3 August 2026. Photo: Reuters

World faces fresh food price surge, FAO warns

A drone view of homes and empty plots along the banks of the Sarandi Stream, where houses were demolished for the Sarandi levee expansion project following the devastating 2024 floods, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, 8 June, 2026. Photo: Reuters

Hydropower plants brace for heavy rains in southern Brazil as severe El Niño looms

El Nino set to be 'strong', UN warns

El Nino set to be 'strong', UN warns

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A super El Niño could push food, health and global economy to the brink

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Hot weather hurts Asian crops as powerful El Nino takes shape