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Super El Niño Drives Drought, Crop Failures and Rising Food Prices
An unusually strong El Niño is drying water sources, damaging crops and pushing food prices higher across Papua New Guinea.
What happened
Water sources are drying up, crops are failing and food prices are rising across Papua New Guinea before the worst agricultural impacts are expected. Pacific Ocean temperatures have already exceeded equivalent readings from the historic 1997 and 2015 El Niño events. Some climate watchers are calling the unfolding pattern a “Super El Niño.”
Why it matters
Food prices are already rising as water shortages and crop failures hit Papua New Guinea, with worse agricultural impacts still expected.
Source: UN News