El Niño forecast to drive record heat from the Amazon to Alaska in 2024

Coastal areas facing enormous and urgent climate crisis' as event supercharges human-caused global heating, scientists say

The current climate event known as El Nino is likely to supercharge global heating and deliver record-breaking temperatures from the Amazon to Alaska in 2024, analysis has found.

Coastal areas of India by the Bay of Bengal and by the South China Sea, as well as the Philippines and the Caribbean, are also likely to experience unprecedented heat in the period to June, the scientists said, after which El Nino may weaken.