SUPER EL NIÑO, IS THE TERMINATOR TO BLAME? In a 2023 paper, Robert Leamon of NASA and the University of Maryland (Baltimore County) made a striking prediction: The next El Niño would arrive in 2026. He based it on the Terminator, a magnetic event on the sun that ends one solar cycle and ignites the […]

Cuba says oil reserves have ‘run out’ as blackouts, fuel shortages spark protests Cuba’s power blackouts worsened on Thursday, with the country’s energy minister saying that oil reserves sent by Russia had “run out” under a tightened US fuel embargo of the island. Dozens of Cubans took took the streets outside of Havana on Wednesday […]