el nino
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El Niño Gives California Crabs
This year’s monster El Niño is truly a monster — it’s been blamed for killing coral reefs. Add another die-off to the list: Southern California beaches are blanketed in hundreds of thousands of tiny crabs. So many that it’s turning the beaches red.
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El Niño Left Behind All These Creepy Coral Ghost Towns Around Christmas Island
The great Niño of 2015 is finally on its way out. But before it goes, it has one final present to leave us: a giant cache of creepy coral bones littering the ocean floor, like a tiny seafaring graveyard. We’ll miss you too, Niño.
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El Niño Is Causing A Worldwide Sugar Shortage
El Niño is almost over, but the wreckage of things it knocked over in its wake continues — and one of those things is your sugar supply. Eat your desserts while you still can, friends.
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El Niño Opens Up A Bridge For Bacteria To Travel Between Continents
Major climate events have opened up land bridges during prehistory, along which animals and humans travelled to new continents. A new study proposes that major weather events, like El Niño, open up “water bridges” that allow bacteria to do the same.