Lauren Sommer
speaker
391 appearances
50 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 10 Sep
Lauren Sommer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Some regions get more rain, while others get drier.
The El Niño developing now could be a record breaker.
Researchers at the University of Michigan and others looked at whether these kinds of El Niños are getting more common.
They used fossils of coral reefs to put together a historical record of El Niños over the past thousand years.
They found since the Industrial Revolution, El Ninos are now 36 percent stronger, which could mean even greater impacts.
Lauren Sommer, NPR News.
The temperature at the surface of the ocean is now about 70 degrees on average outside of the polar regions.
That's the highest in almost 50 years of record keeping, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, which is run by the European Union.
There are two big reasons why.
First, as the atmosphere has gotten hotter from burning fossil fuels, most of that heat has been absorbed by the ocean.
Second, a strong El Nino has developed, which is a natural climate pattern that heats up the planet.
Warmer oceans can affect fisheries around the world.
It's also threatening many coral reefs, which are highly vulnerable to heat.
Lauren Summer, NPR News.
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The temperature at the surface of the ocean is now about seventy degrees on average outside of the polar regions.
That's the highest in almost fifty years of record keeping, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, which is run by the European Union.
There are two big reasons why.
First, as the atmosphere has gotten hotter from burning fossil fuels, most of that heat has been absorbed by the ocean.
Second, a strong El Nino has developed, which is a natural climate pattern that heats up the planet.
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