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El Niño and tropical Atlantic warming could offer early warning of extreme heat in the Amazon

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El Niño and warming in the tropical Atlantic could help provide advance warning of extreme heat in the Amazon, with some signals appearing as much as seven months earlier, new research has found.

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  • Reported by Phys.org and published Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:00:06 UTC.

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