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• What Is El Niño (and La Niña)? The Pacific Cycle That Rewires Global Weather
  Every few years the tropical Pacific shifts between warm, cold and neutral phases — and droughts, floods, hurricane seasons and food prices around the world shift with it. Here is how the El Niño–Southern Oscillation actually works, how scientists measure it, and why a patch of warm water 10,000 kilometres away changes your weather.
• How Birds Migrate: The Compass, the Map, and the Fuel Engineering of Flight
  A bar-tailed godwit flies eleven thousand kilometres non-stop across the Pacific — no food, no water, no rest. Bird migration is not a journey; it is a piece of biological engineering with a compass, a calendar, and a metabolic budget. Here is how it works.