El Nino is a crisis, but it didn�t have to be

To further complicate matters, El Niño is now also interacting with climate change in ways that we do not fully understand.

But when you look a mother in the eye as she tells you that she can’t feed her baby due to the drought, El Niño’s human cost is suddenly very clear. And when you remember that this mother is one of more than 60 million people affected by the 2015-2016 El Niño, it’s clear that we are watching a massive but neglected humanitarian crisis unfold.