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‘El Niño’ already at record levels and threatens to claim 450,000 lives due to extreme heat alone

23 September 2026 at 15:22

The El Niño phenomenon has not yet reached its peak intensity, which the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) expects to occur at the end of this year, and seawater temperatures in the tropical Pacific area considered the epicenter of the event are already at record levels. The anomaly in that zone exceeded three degrees Celsius in mid‑September and has risen to a level similar to the peak of the El Niño event 11 years ago, in November 2015.

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A highway shrouded in smoke from fires in early September on the Indonesian island of Bintan.

Forget Beer: Ice Age Hunters Were Getting High 12,000 Years Earlier — With Betel Nuts

10 September 2026 at 10:08
Two skeletons from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi had something strange going on in their mouths. Not cavities. Not the usual wear from a tough diet. Deep, rounded grooves cut into the teeth — a pattern no archaeologist had documented before, and one nobody could explain. The answer, published in Science Advances, pushes the known […]

Antes de la cerveza y mucho antes de la agricultura: así se drogaban los cazadores de la Edad de Hielo

Dos esqueletos hallados en la isla indonesia de Sulawesi tenían algo raro en la boca. No eran caries, ni el desgaste habitual de una dieta dura. Eran unos surcos profundos y redondeados en los dientes, un patrón que ningún arqueólogo había visto antes y que nadie sabía explicar. La respuesta, publicada en la revista Science […]

President Prabowo Subianto’s Participation in the 11th Eastern Economic Forum (EEF-2026) in Vladivostok

10 September 2026 at 05:59
From September 1 to 4, 2026, President of the Republic of Indonesia Prabowo Subianto paid a working visit to Vladivostok, Russia, to take part in the 11th Eastern Economic Forum (EEF-2026) as the chief guest of honor at the special invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin. This article examines President Subianto’s participation in the EEF-2026 […]

El Tambora, el volcán que en 1815 apagó los cielos de medio planeta provocando el año sin verano en que nació Frankenstein

En estos años en los que el cambio climático ocupa buena parte de la conversación pública, conviene mirar atrás y recordar que el planeta ya vivió, hace poco más de dos siglos, un vuelco climático repentino y devastador, aunque de origen muy distinto al actual. Ocurrió en 1816, un año que los cronistas de la […]

Tambora, the volcano that in 1815 darkened half the planet’s skies, causing the year without a summer in which Frankenstein was born

In these years, when climate change dominates much of the public conversation, it is worth looking back and remembering that the planet already experienced, just over two centuries ago, a sudden and devastating climatic upheaval, although of a very different origin than today. It happened in 1816, a year that the chroniclers of the time […]

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