Axios Visuals. Note the warm water anomalies along the west coast of South America. While a weak La Niña is taking place in the tropical Pacific Ocean, a unique phenomenon is developing along South ...

In addition, "if this El Nino tips into the largest class of events … it will be the shortest recurrence time in the historical record," Kim Cobb, a climate scientist at Brown University ...

If you were going to study El Niño, how would you do it? Maybe fly a plane into a storm to collect data, study satellite records for sea surface temperatures, or use buoys to measure sea surface ...