Southern Africa is feeling the effects of El Niño, experiencing its worst drought in years. The extreme weather phenomenon is caused by both El Niño and higher average temperatures produced by ...

El Niño has important effects on the world’s economies—and not all of them are bad The current El Niño (Spanish for “The Boy”)—a band of above-average ocean surface temperatures that develops every 3 ...

South African consumer inflation remains muted, but lower-income households are still forking out significantly more for a key portion of their caloric intake. And the prospect of another interest ...

Modeling experiments show Pacific warm and cold patches persisted even when continents were in different places The El Niño event, a huge blob of warm ocean water in the tropical Pacific Ocean that ...