The black and white Galapagos Penguins landed on the endangered species list in 2000 after the population plummeted to only a few hundred individuals Most live on the archipelago's westernmost ...

If metro Phoenix hits 100 degrees this week, it would be extra early. Here's when we usually hit that milestone and what it ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - La Niña conditions have been present in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific Ocean since December ... vertical wind shear and trade winds over the tropics, while ...

With weaker trade winds, the ocean can simply warm up faster ... with a slight uptick in rainfall across New England. But our current weak La Niña versus the one 11 years ago doesn’t take ...

Much of this is driven by the current La Niña phase ... intensified east-to-west trade winds push warm Pacific waters toward Asia, drawing cold water to the ocean’s surface in the central ...

La Niña is a recurring climate pattern that occurs when trade winds that push warm water west ... A cooler Pacific Ocean causes the Pacific jet stream, a fast-moving current of air that circles ...