The Helix’s first user is Dr. Michael Glantz, a social scientist who has been studying the impacts of the El Niño climate system since 1974. He runs the Consortium for Capacity Building […]
Helix and El Niño data
The new normal: Cambodia faces climate change
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon and Kong Meta Last year’s drought caused a nationwide crisis, with harvests ruined, forest fires raging and many rural families struggling to feed themselves. As experts take stock of the impact, […]
Warming raises threat of global famine repeat
Global warming is increasing the chances of worldwide harvest failure on the scale of the tragic 19th-century drought and famine that claimed 50 million lives. Awaiting aid in drought-ravaged Somalia in 2011. Image: […]
Warmer winter predicted due to El Nino
October 19, 2018 Rajesh Kumar | New Delhi Winter this year could be comparatively warmer. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday predicted that El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) neutral conditions are prevailing […]
El Nino effect to cause warmer winters
The El Nino effect will fully descend in India by November and December, where the impact will be maximum in the country. According to IMD experts, the natural cycle will gradually move […]
Ecuador suspends work on flood-control wall opposed by Peru
September 24, 2018 By Lakeland Staff Writer Ecuador has suspended construction of a flood-prevention wall along its southern border with Peru, the two countries said on Thursday, after Lima protested against the project […]
Research reveals the connection between climate change, El Niño and the possibility for more extreme wildfires
August 2018 by Sonia Fernandez, University of California – Santa Barbara At roughly 415,000 acres, Northern California’s Mendocino Complex Fire is now the state’s largest recorded wildfire, surpassing the record held by […]
