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Live Science Today: Super El Niño looms and Starlink hits 10,000 satellites in orbitDaily Roundup Tuesday, March 17, 2026: Your daily shot of the biggest science stories making headlines.
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'Super El Niño' could push global temperatures to unprecedented highs, forecasters sayA "super El Niño" could emerge by the end of the 2026 hurricane season, with forecasters predicting that the ongoing La Niña is about to finish.
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Critical moment when El Niño started to erode Russia's Arctic sea ice discoveredScientists discover a tipping point that took place in 2000, where El Niño’s effect on sea ice loss in Siberia was amplified.
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Forecasters predict La Niña conditions this fall: What to expectNOAA forecasts suggest we could experience La Niña conditions in the fall and early winter. However, this potential La Niña spell is unlikely to break records.
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96% of oceans worldwide experienced extreme heatwaves in 2023, new study findsThe extreme marine heatwaves of 2023 may signal a tipping point for Earth's climate, a new study suggests.
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La Niña is dead — what that means for this year's hurricanes and weatherScientists thought La Niña was coming. It didn't — at least for now. What could that mean for this year's hurricane season, and how might long-term climate change affect El Niño and La Niña patterns?
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1,200-year-old remains of dismembered pregnant woman in Ecuador hint at 'enigmatic' sacrifice to thwart El NiñoThe unusual burial of a woman and fetus in prehistoric Ecuador may reflect the community's fear of her power.
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'Unusual' and weak La Niña finally here, NOAA confirmsNOAA has declared that a La Niña is underway. This cool weather event is likely to be shorter and weaker than usual, but will still affect global weather and climate.
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Climate change is the worst. Here's just how bad it got this year.The big news in Earth science this year was all about climate change, with extreme weather, flooding and drought attributed to warming. Scientists also warned about much worse to come if we don't rein in carbon emissions.
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