El Niño and La Niña periods often last nine to 12 months, but can go on for years and don’t occur on a regular schedule.

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La Jolla Cove might be the smallest beach in San Diego, but what it lacks in size, it makes up for in sheer jaw-dropping beauty. The water here is so clear you’d think Mother Nature installed a filter ...

At a US hearing, experts discussed the US-India partnership's role in the Indo-Pacific. Dhruva Jaishankar cited the Indian ...

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Using U.S. forces to take control of a merchant ship is unusual and marks the Trump administration's latest push to increase ...

The Trump administration’s seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela is one of the most dramatic twists yet in a ...

A powerful atmospheric river has drenched Washington state with nearly 5 trillion gallons of rain over the past week.

The Metals Company wants to be the first firm to commercially mine the seafloor. The study it funded suggests that mining ...

Westerly wind bursts can trigger the beginning of a shift from La Niña to El Niño, a change that can have big consequences ...