El Nino, La Nina and the Indian sub-continent

Who leads the intimate dance of El Nino with the Indian monsoon?

Not all droughts over India are explained by El Nino-Southern Oscillation

Simply unpredictable

Despite using satellites and supercomputers, meteorologists are still baffled by the monsoon, unable to say precisely when it will occur and how …

Unmasking the heat

The weather machine seems to have gone into overdrive. Scientists assert that the rise in temperature is unprecedented, at least since the 15th …

Chaos theory?

Science takes on nature as climatologists try to predict El Nio patterns in an attempt to warn governments of climatic anomalies

Tantrums of the "Christ Child"

A weather event which Peruvians once regarded as a boon is now recognised as causing terrible global disasters

THE TEMPEST

Hurricane Mitch leaves Nicaragua and Honduras devastated, and over 10, 000 dead

The great Indian monsoon and its friends

A look at the association between the southwest monsoon and its companions

Simply unpredictable

Despite using satellites and supercomputers, meteorologists are still baffled by the monsoon, unable to say precisely when it will occur and how …

What the blazes!

Is it the hand of God, or the soiled hand of man? The buck is being passed even as flames stretching hundreds and hundreds of kilometres …

Tensions that continue

While launching this newsmagazine, our founder-editor Anil Agarwal had said that in the years ahead, India will have to seize every possible …

Is the warming Pacific Ocean finally signalling an El Niño?

After cooling down suddenly in July, the Pacific Ocean is warming up once again but it could be another mischief played by the 'Little Boy'

Waiting for El Niño

Going against the predictions of other meteorological agencies in the world, Japan Meteorological Agency took a bold step by announcing the onset …

Wily weather

Can the Indian economy cope with unusual weather phenomena?

Plague kills 40 in Africa’s Madagascar, El Nino blamed

High level of resistance to deltamethrin, an insecticide used to control fleas, has complicated the problem

EL NINO WATCH

Hottest of them all

The first three months of the year 2002 were the warmest ever recorded

La Nia returns

After a gap of about five years

Philippines

Heat and sawdust

The fires in Brazil and in Indonesia speak volumes of what happens when humans try to make a living by killing forests and neglecting the poor

El Nio hits Colombia

Cooler 1999 predicted

1999: a lot cooler

PERU

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