Hurricane Polo, a large storm off the coast of Mexico, has been downgraded to a category 4 hurricane but remains “very powerful”, according to the US National Hurricane Center. The Pacific hurricane, one of the strongest of the season, was projected to head towards the coast of south-western Mexico bringing intense wind and rain, but
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- September 22, 2026
Peatland fires in Indonesia, which can be exacerbated by El Niño, release a huge amount of carbon dioxide.Credit: Sigit Prasetya/NurPhoto via Getty As a climate scientist who studies land and ocean temperature records, I start each day by pulling observations and forecasts of the El Niño weather pattern from 14 leading models into a real-time
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- September 15, 2026
Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Credit: Bagus Kurniawan/NurPhoto via Getty This year’s El Niño weather event is forecast to reach unprecedented strength. It’s also the first strong El Niño to form in the eastern (rather than central) Pacific since the late
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