What is El Niño? (And can it really impact coffee & chocolate prices?)

You may have seen the infamous El Niño mentioned in the headlines as the cause of floods, droughts, fires, storms, expensive coffee & chocolate etc etc. But if El Niño is the cause of all of these different hazards, what actually is El Niño? Psst! Keep reading to see a fantastic cartoon of El Niño and

Can we really use El Niño to predict flooding? & 5 Things I learnt writing a Nature paper.

This question is the one that my PhD research, and my most recent paper, aim to address – looking at the links between El Niño and river flow to see if we can use it to provide earlier flood warnings. But the question I’ve been asked a fair few times over the past year in