Ecuador in new probe to see if climate change worsens El Nino

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Ecuador in new probe to see if climate change worsens El Nino,
October 9, 2013,
By by Héctor Velasco,
Phys.org

Think Galapagos and you think nature in its most pristine expression. But the destructive weather phenomenon called El Nino turns coral reefs there a sickly white and sea iguanas scrawny.

And now, in an unprecedented experiment, scientists using unmanned submarines in the waters off the Ecuadoran archipelago are probing whether global warming is related to El Nino.