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A view of the Kothapatnam beach. In an El Niño year, India has recorded deficient rainfall and more incidence of droughts, on average. However, Tamil Nadu has reported a strikingly different pattern. | Photo Credit: Kommuri Srinivas/The Hindu The El Niño Southern Oscillation is a climate phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean that happens every two…
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A woman walks along the promenade on a rainy monsoon day, at Marine Drive in Mumbai. File | Photo Credit: PTI In the monsoon of 1997, the Central Pacific was running one of the fiercest fevers in its recorded history in the form of an El Niño so violent that, by every rule of thumb,…
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Irrigation tanks and lakes like the Ramappa Lake helped blunt the impact of the 1876 El Nino in Telangana. | Photo Credit: File Photo The year was 1876. Monsoon failed, crops withered and one of the deadliest famines in Indian history began to unfold. Over the next two years, the Great Famine linked to a…
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Many warming records were broken in 2023 along with climate disasters such as wildfires, cyclones, droughts, and floods. In this time, the focus of the public narrative – often with the participation of scientists – has often been on whether we crossed the ‘magical’ warming threshold of 1.5 degrees C. The best estimates, derived from…
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