Ben Turner is a U.K. based staff writer at Live Science. He covers physics and astronomy, among other topics like tech and climate change. He graduated from University College London with a degree in particle physics before training as a journalist. When he's not writing, Ben enjoys reading literature, playing the guitar and embarrassing himself with chess.
Unprecedented global temperature rises will likely see the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold breached at some point in the next five years, a United Nations report predicts.
Related: Significant El Niño event is almost guaranteed this year, experts warn. And it could be a big one. El Niño occurs when trade winds, which typically push warm water westwards across the Pacific Ocean from South America to Asia, weaken, keeping more of the warm water in place. This strongly affects climate patterns around the world, making South America wetter and bringing drought to regions such as Australia, Indonesia, Northern China and Northeastern Brazil. In the U.S.
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