NASA Satellites Spot a Powerful El Niño Building Beneath the Pacific

A powerful climate signal is building across the tropical Pacific, and satellites can see it rising in the ocean itself. El Niño returned in June 2026, marked by warmer-than-average waters in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific. NOAA declared the event on June 11 after sea surface temperatures stayed at least 0.5 degrees Celsius (0.9 [...]