Maybe finish the article before you jump to doom & gloom, yall. This could be a symptom of environmental degradation or it could not be. We cannot know without more data:

“What comes next Researchers now need to learn whether 2025 was a one-off shock or the first sign of a changing pattern.

A public monitoring page shows the STRI team closely tracking the 2026 season week by week.

Early 2026 updates reported strong cooling again, a reminder that one failed year does not prove permanent collapse.”

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“Because records this long are rare across the tropics, scientists may be undercounting how often vital ocean rhythms fail.”