Record El Niño could bring wildfires, landslides and coral bleaching

New Scientist says past trends suggest the record El Niño could bring wildfires, landslides and coral bleaching over the next year, and warns that the world isn’t prepared. It reports that fires in Indonesia had burned about 1,000 square kilometres by June 2026, then doubled that area in a month as El Niño developed. Hundreds of thousands of people have faced respiratory illness.