Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Study finds Earth-sun distance helps drive the Pacific cold tongue, a key player in El Niño and global weather. (CREDIT: Wikimedia ...

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A strip of cool water stretches west from South America along the equator, helping set the pace for some of the planet’s most important weather swings. That Pacific “cold tongue” helps steer the El ...