• El Nino will get more extreme

    El Niño and La Niña are the warm and cold phases, respectively, of the pattern known as the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in the eastern half of the tropical Pacific. Forecasting how this pattern will behave a few months in advance is now…

  • Massive landslides and floods hit Colombia

    As many as 200 people may have been buried in a landslide that swept over houses near Medellin, Colombia’s second largest city. The landslide struck the La Gabriela district of the town of Bello near Medellin, 250 miles northwest of the capital Bogota. The landslide