Galápagos in Flux: How El Niño is Reshaping Island Ecosystems

Sea turtles visiting the Galápagos Marine Reserve are among the species most susceptible to the El Niño phenomenon.

El Niño has started. This is a climate pattern that occurs periodically and brings warmer water into the Galapagos Archipelago. The trade winds that normally blow from east to western across the Pacific have begun to weaken. This has led to a decrease in the strength of Humboldt Current which brings cold water from Antarctica […]