Galápagos coral record reveals climate change has intensified El Niño by nearly 40%

A new analysis of coral samples from the Galápagos Islands indicates that El Niño events have grown roughly 40% stronger since the preindustrial era. The findings point to climate change as a direct amplifier of the ocean-atmosphere phenomenon, potentially driving more extreme global weather. Researchers describe the evidence as unusually straightforward, linking human-caused warming to a measurable shift in natural climate variability.