IMPACTS OF EL-NIÑO AND LA- NIÑA ON THE ENVIRONMENT

by Sivakumaran Sivaramanan, Virtual Voice (Narrator)

El Niño is the strongest change in the weather pattern of tropical Pacific region. It causes severe storms, floods, drought, forest fires, epidemics, famine, fish kill, bleaching of corals, and die back of forests. El Niño of 1997/98 (also called super El Niño) affected temperature and the rainfall in United States caused cyclones in eastern Canada and US region, floods in China, forest fires in Australia, epidemics such as Dengue outbreak thrived over western Pacific and Asia, over 35 countries declared federal disaster area. Crop loss, land degradation, river sedimentation and contamination and loss of underground water sources caused famine in the effected regions, killed 23,000 people and also caused £21bn-£28bn property loss. 97/98 El Niño also caused bleaching of coral reefs all over the world. There is a possible co-relation between severity of disaster and anthropogenic means of global warming, this book gives elementary level review on the same mainly based on El Niño and Health published by WHO(1999).

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Published March 30, 2025