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Lingering El Niño events are becoming more common: Study uncovers 7,000-year trend

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An international team of geoscientists has found that lingering El Niño events have increased in frequency over the past 7,000 years .

They analyzed oxygen isotopes trapped in Pacific Ocean corals and used the findings to create a simulation showing occurrences of El Niño-Southern Oscillation events and their lengths over time.

The researchers used what they found to create climate simulations going back thousands of years .

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