Pacific Ocean temperatures are rising fast, raising fears that a powerful El Nino pattern could bring record global heat and chaotic weather, and fresh damage to coral reefs already weakened by climate…

Many record-hot years — including 1998, 2010, 2016, 2023 and 2024 — followed major El Nino events or developed alongside them.

Pacific Ocean temperatures are rising fast, raising fears that a powerful El Nino pattern could bring record global heat and chaotic weather, and fresh damage to coral reefs…