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(27 Aug 2026)
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ARCHIVE: Mandaluyong, Philippines - 17 August 2026
1. Various of people pushing vehicles through floodwaters
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Ann Arbor, Michigan – 25 August 2026
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Julia Cole, paleoclimate scientist: ++STARTS ON SHOT 1 AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 3 TO 13++
"El Nino is a natural phenomenon that every few years causes the tropical Pacific to become warmer than usual. The current El Nino that we're seeing develop now, for this time of year, it actually is the strongest that we have on record. And we're already seeing the impacts of that El Nino across the tropics. We're seeing in Indonesia, for example, over a quarter million acres of land have burned. We're see very dry conditions in India where the monsoon is among the driest of the last 20 years. We're also seeing things like tropical storms striking Hawaii. Normally, tropical storms don't get as far north as Hawaii, but because the Pacific is so warm, those storms can form over that very warm water. We know that El Nino supercharges global warming. What our data show is that perhaps global warming also supercharges El Nino. As the atmosphere warms, it holds more water vapor. And that water vapor can come out of the atmosphere when conditions are right in intense rainfall. Where El Nino would produce a flood, now it would produce an even bigger flood. It's getting a lot stronger in the last few decades than it has been over the last thousand years. So really, we need to look back at the root cause of this. The intensification of El Nino closely parallels warming. We know what's causing that warming, it's the human consumption of fossil fuels. And so this gives us one more nudge to move our energy system towards renewables and away from fossil fuels."
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Palembang, Indonesia - 25 August 2026
3. Various of firefighters battling flames spreading near residential area
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ARCHIVE: New Delhi - 20 May 2026
4. Various of heat haze, Indian Presidential building in background
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ARCHIVE: Waialua, Hawaii - 20 March 2026
5. Various aerials of flooded streets
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ARCHIVE: Lima, Peru - 17 August 2026
6. Wide of street after heavy floods
7. Wide of residents walking through muddy street
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ARCHIVE: Baguio City, Philippines - 10 August 2026
8. Various of rescue workers clearing debris from landslide
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ARCHIVE: Lima, Peru - 17 August 2026
9. Wide of worker extracting water from flooded highway
10. Close of bus submerged by floodwaters
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ARCHIVE: Permian Basin, Texas – October 2021
11. Various of oil wells
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ARCHIVE: Cheshire, Ohio - 14 April 2025
12. Close of a smokestack
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ARCHIVE: Poca, West Virginia - 22 March 2026
13. Various aerials of American Electric Power's John Amos coal-fired plant
STORYLINE:
A new study suggests that El Ninos — the natural climatic chaos agent that pops up every few years and spikes already warming global temperatures — are getting stronger because of human-caused climate change.
El Ninos are more than 36% stronger than they were before the industrial age began in the mid 1800s, with a 16% jump in just the last 40 years showing that's the increase is accelerating, according to a study in Thursday's journal Science.
The findings come as an El Nino that formed a couple months ago is already considered super strong and is forecast to be the biggest on record in coming months.
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(27 Aug 2026)
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++MUSIC CLEARED FOR USE++
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ARCHIVE: Mandaluyong, Philippines - 17 August 2026
1. Various of people pushing vehicles through floodwaters
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Ann Arbor, Michigan – 25 August 2026
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Julia Cole, paleoclimate scientist: ++STARTS ON SHOT 1 AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 3 TO 13++
"El Nino is a natural phenomenon that every few years causes the tropical Pacific to become warmer than usual. The current El Nino that we're seeing develop now, for this time of year, it actually is the strongest that we have on record. And we're already seeing the impacts of that El Nino across the tropics. We're seeing in Indonesia, for example, over a quarter million acres of land have burned. We're see very dry conditions in India where the monsoon is among the driest of the last 20 years. We're also seeing things like tropical storms striking Hawaii. Normally, tropical storms don't get as far north as Hawaii, but because the Pacific is so warm, those storms can form over that very warm water. We know that El Nino supercharges global warming. What our data show is that perhaps global warming also supercharges El Nino. As the atmosphere warms, it holds more water vapor. And that water vapor can come out of the atmosphere when conditions are right in intense rainfall. Where El Nino would produce a flood, now it would produce an even bigger flood. It's getting a lot stronger in the last few decades than it has been over the last thousand years. So really, we need to look back at the root cause of this. The intensification of El Nino closely parallels warming. We know what's causing that warming, it's the human consumption of fossil fuels. And so this gives us one more nudge to move our energy system towards renewables and away from fossil fuels."
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Palembang, Indonesia - 25 August 2026
3. Various of firefighters battling flames spreading near residential area
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ARCHIVE: New Delhi - 20 May 2026
4. Various of heat haze, Indian Presidential building in background
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ARCHIVE: Waialua, Hawaii - 20 March 2026
5. Various aerials of flooded streets
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ARCHIVE: Lima, Peru - 17 August 2026
6. Wide of street after heavy floods
7. Wide of residents walking through muddy street
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Baguio City, Philippines - 10 August 2026
8. Various of rescue workers clearing debris from landslide
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ARCHIVE: Lima, Peru - 17 August 2026
9. Wide of worker extracting water from flooded highway
10. Close of bus submerged by floodwaters
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ARCHIVE: Permian Basin, Texas – October 2021
11. Various of oil wells
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ARCHIVE: Cheshire, Ohio - 14 April 2025
12. Close of a smokestack
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ARCHIVE: Poca, West Virginia - 22 March 2026
13. Various aerials of American Electric Power's John Amos coal-fired plant
STORYLINE:
A new study suggests that El Ninos — the natural climatic chaos agent that pops up every few years and spikes already warming global temperatures — are getting stronger because of human-caused climate change.
El Ninos are more than 36% stronger than they were before the industrial age began in the mid 1800s, with a 16% jump in just the last 40 years showing that's the increase is accelerating, according to a study in Thursday's journal Science.
The findings come as an El Nino that formed a couple months ago is already considered super strong and is forecast to be the biggest on record in coming months.
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