El Nino

El Nino

A drone view shows a harvester working in a soybean plantation in San Andres de Giles, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 12 May 2025. Photo:Reuters.

How will Latin America's super El Niño affect the top food-exporting region?

A powerful El Niño could reshape rainfall, crop yields, energy production and trade routes across Latin America.

Members of Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) fire brigade work to extinguish a fire rising in Amazon rainforest in Apui, Amazonas state, Brazil, August 8, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Adriano Machado

Brazil's natural areas shrink, worsening El Nino impact

Representational Image of wheat. Photo: Collected

Decades of farm gains, inventories strengthen food system against 'super' El Nino

A drone view shows a farmer collecting crystallised salt from a pond floor during harvest in Pengarengan village, Cirebon, West Java province, Indonesia, July 31, 2026. Photo: REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan

Indonesia’s salt fields bloom under drought from El Niño’s baking heat

Combines harvest wheat in a field amid Russia's attack on Ukraine in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, 3 August 2026. Photo: Reuters

World faces fresh food price surge, FAO warns

A drone view of homes and empty plots along the banks of the Sarandi Stream, where houses were demolished for the Sarandi levee expansion project following the devastating 2024 floods, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, 8 June, 2026. Photo: Reuters

Hydropower plants brace for heavy rains in southern Brazil as severe El Niño looms

El Nino set to be 'strong', UN warns

El Nino set to be 'strong', UN warns

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A super El Niño could push food, health and global economy to the brink

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Hot weather hurts Asian crops as powerful El Nino takes shape

Cracks run through a partially dried-up river bed. Photo: REUTERS

UN warns of extreme heat risk from El Nino and urges preparedness

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El Nino threat looms as India forecasts lowest monsoon rainfall in 11 years

Insufficient rainfall during the monsoon season in Bangladesh, caused by El Niño, profoundly impacts rain-fed staple crop production. Photo: Sikder Ahmed

US forecaster says El Nino has 82% chance of developing by July

Labourers plant rice saplings in a field in Gaggarpur village in the northern state of Haryana, India, 21 June 2025. Photo: Reuters

From surplus to strain: World rice supply threatened by Iran war, El Nino