El Niño is back and the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is warning that it could put lives at risk. The global weather phenomenon marks when the waters in the Pacific Ocean become much warmer than usual. After three years of cooling La Niña weather, the WMO announced that El Niño is now underway and has a 90 percent chance of continuing through the end of the year at moderate or higher strength. Temperature records are already being broken, and El Niño could push the world to a new average temperature record. “El Niño is commonly associated with record temperatures at a global level. Whether this will happen in 2023 or 2024 is not yet known, but I think it is more likely,” says Carlo Buontempo, director of the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. (Rebecca Ann Hughes, Euronews)