{
  "id": 3788564,
  "title": "El Niños have been more intense over the last 40 years than in the previous 1,000 years, coral records reveal",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/el-ninos-have-been-more-intense-over-the-last-40-years-than-in-the",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-27T18:00:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-08-el-nios-intense-years-previous.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "As an El Niño of historic proportions is taking shape in the tropical Pacific, a University of Michigan study has found that El Niño events have become nearly 40% stronger in the last 40 years than they were in the preindustrial era.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}