Nature World News: Global warming could impact the El Nio Southern Oscillation (ENSO), researchers have found, resulting in changes in the El Nio and La Nia weather cycles known to cause drought and flooding in Australia and other Pacific-rim countries.
Published in Nature Geoscience, the study uses coral samples to track the last 4,300 years of the ENSO cycle. The results suggest that El Nio events are easily influenced by external changes.
"Our research has showed that while the development of La Nia and...