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El Niño 2026–27 as a polycrisis: What happens when health and energy systems fail simultaneously?

Open any news feed from the past few months, and the disasters arrive in a stream: smoke reaching dangerous levels throughout Canada and flash floods in Ottawa, Montréal and Toronto; heat and drought arriving together on every continent.

El Niño 2026–27 as a polycrisis: What happens when health and energy systems fail simultaneously?
Image: Phys.org
Open any news feed from the past few months, and the disasters arrive in a stream: smoke reaching dangerous levels throughout Canada and flash floods in Ottawa, Montréal and Toronto; heat and drought arriving together on every continent.

Originally published at Phys.org

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