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Podcast Extra: An El Niño for the Record Books

We’ve been talking about what this year’s El Niño could mean in Utah. For the view abroad, we spoke with the journalist Joshua Partlow.

Partlow is a staff writer at The Atlantic. In a recent piece for the magazine, he writes about a spot in the Pacific Ocean called the Niño 3.4 region. That’s where climate scientists track the development of El Niño phases. And they’re finding that the Niño 3.4 region is getting warmer, increasing the risk of flooding, famine and drought around the globe. Partlow joins us to talk about what he learned.

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Joshua Partlow | Staff writer at The Atlantic. His article is called “This El Niño Will Be Unlike Any in the Past Eight Decades.”

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