Galápagos corals show El Niño events are more extreme now than in past 1,000 years – here’s how my team made the discovery

Research published in the journal Science suggests that El Niño events have become more extreme over the last forty years than at any point in the past millennium. By analyzing the chemical composition of living and fossil corals in the Galápagos Islands, researchers found that these intensifying patterns coincide with human-caused global warming. As The Conversation reports, the study indicates that historic heat waves, like those seen in the early eighties and late nineties, may be precursors to even more destructive events as the planet continues to warm.

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