By: L.N. Reklai KOROR, Palau (Oct. 24, 2026) — Angaur residents are struggling to secure drinking water and maintain their livelihoods as a prolonged drought linked to a super El Niño threatens Palau and much of the western Pacific. Surrounded by seawater, salty inland lakes and wells with brackish water, Angaur is facing a growing […]
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From drought to deluge: ‘Super’ El Niño’s expanding reach
PORT MORESBY, 22 OCTBER 2026 (UN NEWS CENTRE) —Across Papua New Guinea, water sources are drying up, crops are failing and food prices are rising months before the worst agricultural impacts are expected. Behind those warning signs is an El Niño whose Pacific Ocean temperatures have already surpassed the equivalent measurements during the historic 1997 […]
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Indonesian wildfires spurred by super El Niño choke South-East Asia
By Tim Swanston and Ari Wu in West Kalimantan, with Raffa Athallah, and Erwin Renaldi https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-07/indonesia-wildfires-haze-poor-air-quality-smog-drought-el-nino/107122922 Share article (ABC-Australia) For three exhausting months, Andri Susanto and his crew have been fighting raging forest and land fires on the island of Borneo. For many, it’s reminiscent of 2015, a horrid fire season that led to a […]