El Niño Meets the Rain Forest
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Sam Knight visits Papua New Guinea, the home of the world’s third-largest rain forest, where the El Niño weather pattern is causing a drought.
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Global connections between El Nino and landslide impacts
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DOC) El Niño 2015-16 - Annotated Bibliography of Media Reports
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Rain Forest Warriors: How Indigenous Tribes Protect the
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Rampant Wildfires Are Threatening a Collapse of the Rainforest
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rainforest - Wikipedia
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Papua New Guinea
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2015-2016 El Niño caused 2.5 billion trees to die in just 1% of the