After months of delay, the cool La Niña climate pattern has emerged in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, which increases ...

White-faced capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica who experienced more intense physiological responses to mild droughts were more fit to survive extreme drought, researchers found in a new UCLA-led study.

El Nino exerts powerful control on Earth's climate ... Halfway around the world in India, El Niño years were not so benign. The Great Drought of 1876-78 spread widespread famine and brought ...

A lot of that, I think, could be tied to the heat in the atmosphere related to the early onset El Niño,” says Rippey. According to Rippey, the drought in the Midwest can be attributed to the ...

Drought was a major storyline for U.S. crop ... He points out with most models signaling the return of El Nino, it is also a hint of what type of growing conditions crops like corn could see ...

Along with climate change, El Nino contributed to extreme heat waves and drought across Southeast Asia and parts of Africa. Its "little girl" sister, La Nina, creates weather patterns that ...

Monkeys who showed a steeper rise in these stress hormones during the mild droughts were more likely to survive the severe El Nino drought. As weather intensifies globally, longitudinal studies of ...

The El Niño drought that spread across Central and South America from 2014 to 2016 was the biggest in recent history and led to the deaths of many monkeys. While devastating for the monkeys and ...