El-Nino
Title: El-Nino
Category: /Science & Technology
Details: Words: 1524 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
El-Nino
Category: /Science & Technology
Details: Words: 1524 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
There's trouble in the air. Specifically, in the west coast of the Americas, where the sea surface has been heated to abnormal extremes by an ominous, intermittent flood of hot water called El-Nino. The term. "El-Nino," which means "the child," was originally in reference to a warm current arriving annually during the Christmas season off the coast of Peru and Ecuador. The term was later restricted to the particularly strong periodic warmings that disrupt the
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