Galápagos corals show El Niño events are more extreme now than in past 1,000 years

Phys.org reports that temperatures have warmed dramatically across the equatorial Pacific in twenty twenty-six, signaling the onset of a strong and potentially historic El Niño. These events can disrupt weather worldwide, and the intensity of recent ones is raising concern that they are becoming stronger and more destructive as global temperatures rise. This aligns with research published in Science that found El Niño events have become more extreme over the past four decades than at any point in the past millennium.

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