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2026 ‘super El Nino’ smashes all-time record, still months from peak

The 2026 El Niño has officially become the strongest on record, with sea surface temperatures in a key stretch of the central Pacific surpassing any measurement in more than 170 years of observations — and the event is still months…

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August 2026 was the hottest, most humid month ever recorded

Last month was the hottest and most humid August ever recorded, with global average temperatures soaring to 1.65 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, according to analyses by climate scientists — the latest in a cascade of broken records driven by…

WMO issues most certain El Nino forecast in its history

The World Meteorological Organization on Thursday issued its most unequivocal forecast in its 50-year history, warning that El Niño is intensifying into a "very strong" event with a "nearly 100%" likelihood of persisting through February 2027.

EU report shows summer crop yields down up to 14% amid heat and drought

Exceptional heatwaves and prolonged drought have reduced summer crop yields across the European Union by up to 14%, according to a new European Commission report released on Tuesday, August 25, as the bloc's agriculture sector faces one of its most…

Earth’s oceans hit all-time heat record amid historic El Niño

Global sea surface temperatures reached their highest level in recorded history on Friday, as a surging El Niño compounds decades of human-caused warming to push the planet's oceans into uncharted territory.

Met Office declares El Nino strongest in living memory

Britain's Met Office on Friday declared that the El Niño weather pattern developing over the Pacific Ocean is likely to be the strongest in living memory, warning that 2027 is "very likely" to replace 2024 as the warmest year on…

Odds of 2026 being hottest year on record jump to 69%, researchers say

An intensifying El Niño and the relentless march of climate change are raising the likelihood that 2026 will surpass 2024 as the hottest year in recorded history, according to a new analysis released Thursday by Berkeley Earth, a nonprofit climate…

Record El Nino to fast-forward Earth’s temperature by a decade

This year's record-breaking El Niño will do more than intensify extreme weather around the globe — it will effectively fast-forward the planet's temperature to conditions scientists expect will become the norm by the late 2030s, according to an analysis published…

July 2026 was second warmest on record, UN says

The World Meteorological Organization declared Tuesday that July 2026 was the joint second warmest July on record globally, as extreme heat, drought, and wildfires ravaged large parts of the Northern Hemisphere and the UN agency warned that periods of dangerous…

World’s oceans hit record July temperatures amid strengthening El Niño

The world's oceans recorded their hottest-ever July temperatures, driven in part by a strengthening El Niño in the Pacific that scientists warn could bring record sea levels to the California coast later this year.

Australia forecasts El Niño could be strongest since 1950

The 2026–2027 El Niño is on track to become the strongest ever recorded, with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology reporting that July's Southern Oscillation Index plunged to -29.1 — far below the -7 threshold that typically signals El Niño conditions.…

Indonesia braces as El Niño nears ‘very strong’ threshold

The World Meteorological Organization has warned that a strong El Niño event will continue to intensify during the August-to-October period, increasing the likelihood of above-normal temperatures across much of the globe and driving shifts in rainfall patterns that threaten drought,…