Tag: El Niño weather

Last 5 years were the hottest on record – UN

MARRAKESH, MOROCCO (Reuters) — The past five years were the hottest on record with mounting evidence that heat waves, floods and rising sea levels are increasing because of man-made climate change, the United Nations weather agency said on Tuesday (November 8). A report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed 2015 was the first year in which temperatures were one degree Celsius (1.8 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times, partly because of an El Niño weather event […]

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Drought takes toll at Palau’s famed Jellyfish Lake

A severe drought in Palau is killing marine life at the island nation’s popular Jellyfish Lake, researchers say, forcing tourism operators to cancel trips to the unique Pacific destination. The lake near the capital Koror normally provides a tranquil, otherworldly experience for tourists, mostly from China, who snorkel and float among throngs of non-stinging, golden jellyfish. But with the tiny nation of 18,000 in the grip of its worst drought on record, scientists last month […]

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