The World from PRX

El Nino

Global average CO2 concentrations rose at a record rate in 2016 to more than 403 parts per million up from 400.00 ppm in 2015, according to the World Meteorological Organization. Concentrations of CO2 are now nearly 50% higher than pre-industrial levels.
Science
There’s more CO2 in the atmosphere now than any point in almost a million years
El Niobium's heat
Environment
Will El Niño return in 2017?
Lions
Environment
Why lions can feast during a drought
Ethiopian drought/water jugs
Global Politics
In Ethiopia and other countries, drought related to El Niño is causing a hunger crisis
Mavis, a housekeeper from the Pretoria township of Mamelodi, depends on her garden to help provide for her five children and seven grandchildren. But with this year's region-wide drought, her garden is just a dusty patch of seedlings. “I want rain every d
Environment
For one South African house cleaner, this year’s big drought means crying, hungry children
Measuring the snowpack
Environment
January snows in the Sierras ease, but will not end, California’s drought
Brazilian soldiers distribute educational flyers about the Zika virus in São Paulo, the country's largest city.
Environment
Zika is a window into a much bigger story in Brazil
El Niño from NOAA
Environment
The current El Niño may hold lessons for how to deal with a warming planet
A sea surface temperature anomaly in the tropical Pacific Ocean during the peak of the 2009-10 El Niño.
Environment
El Niño is back, and global temperature records are in danger
El Niño Makes Atlantic hurricanes less likely.
Environment
Welcome to the ‘Double El Niño’ — and more extreme weather
El Niño, Frogs & Ponds
El Niño Acting up
El Ski-No