Tui De Roy / Marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) starved to death due to El Nino effect, Puerto Ayora / Academy Bay, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos

Roy Mangersnes / Marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) feeding in deep water to find algae, off the coast of Fernandina island on Galapagos. April 2016. Much of the algae on coast and at shallower depths have been k...

Roy Mangersnes / Marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) feeding in deep water to find algae, off the coast of Fernandina island on Galapagos. April 2016. Much of the algae on coast and at shallower depths have been k...

Roy Mangersnes / Marine iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) basking on rock next to skeleton of one which starved to death. Unusually warm El Nino waters have killed a lot of the algae which is the food for these iguana...

Roy Mangersnes / Coastal scene on Fernandina Island, with small group of Marine iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus). Galapagos. April 2016. Normally there would be a much larger group but El Nino weather has killed off...

Roy Mangersnes / Dead Marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) on the coastal rocks on Santiago Island, Galapagagos, April 2016. It probably died of starvation as much of the algae in the region have died off due to un...

Juergen Freund / Diver lowering an artificial reef made of ceramic snowflakes to help rejuvenate the dead reef of El Nido. The 1998 El Nino caused a massive scale coral bleaching to this tourist town that used to have...

Mark Bowler / Commercial fishing trawler off Paracas peninsula, Peru, 7th August 2007. Fishery off the coast of Peru Produces 10% of the worlds fish and is severly effected by 'El Nino' years which are becoming m...

Doug Perrine / Antler coral (Pocillopora grandis) showing bleaching with pastel green fluorescence. This is believed to result from pigments produced by coral acting as sunscreen in an attempt to survive bleaching....

Doug Perrine / Antler coral (Pocillopora grandis) showing bleaching with pastel green fluorescence. This is believed to result from pigments produced by coral acting as sunscreen in an attempt to survive bleaching....

Doug Perrine / Arceye hawkfish (Paracirrhites arcatus) resting on bleached Cauliflower coral (Pocillopora meandrina). Coral bleaching a result of El Nino year with high ocean temperatures. Hoover's Reef, Makako...

Doug Perrine / Bleached coral reef with dead Cauliflower coral (Pocillopora grandis) in middle of large Plate and pillar coral (Porites rus). Bleached by high ocean temperatures during El Nino event. Honaunau Bay, K...

Doug Perrine / Algae growing over dead Finger coral (Porites compressa), coral bleaching caused by high ocean temperatures during El Nino event. Honaunau Bay, Kona, Hawaii, USA. September 2015.

Doug Perrine / Cauliflower coral (Pocillopora meandrina), bleached head surrounded by dead coral covered in algae. Honokeana Cove, Napili, West Maui, Hawaii, USA. October 2019.

Doug Perrine / Antler coral (Pocillopora grandis), bleached due to symbiotic zooxanthellae algae being expelled because of environmental stress. Kohanaiki, North Kona Coast, Hawaii, USA. May 2020.

Doug Perrine / Antler coral (Pocillopora grandis), tips of branches. Bleached due to symbiotic zooxanthellae algae being expelled because of environmental stress. Kohanaiki, North Kona Coast, Hawaii, USA. April 2020...

Doug Perrine / Coral reef with Hard coral (Porites sp), bleached due to high water temperatures during El Nino event. Fish swimming above reef. Kamakahonu, Kailua Bay, Kona, Hawaii, USA. December 2015.

Doug Perrine / Whitemouth moray eel (Gymnothorax meleagris) sheltering in bleached Antler coral (Pocillopora grandis) due to marine heatwave. Kohanaiki, Kona, Hawaii, USA. December 2015.

Doug Perrine / Antler coral (Pocillopora grandis), partially bleached. Healthy coral is brown due to presence of symbiotic zooxanthellae. Damaged coral is bleached white due to loss of the symbiotic algae, fluoresci...

Tui De Roy / Flightless cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi) pair at nest. Galapagos marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) carcasses surrounding nest. El Nino resulted in starvation of iguanas. Cape Douglas, Fernan...

Tui De Roy / Flightless cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi) on nest with another drying wings in background. Galapagos marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) carcasses, a result of starvation caused by El Nino, sur...

Tui De Roy / Flightless cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi), pair fending off dying Galapagos marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus). El Nino resulted in starvation of iguanas. Cape Douglas, Fernandina Island, Gala...

Tui De Roy / Marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) dead due to starvation caused by El Nino effect, Punta Espinosa, Fernandina Island, Galapagos

Tui De Roy / Marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus), starved to death due to the El Nino effect, Cape Douglas, Fernandina Island, Galapagos

Doug Perrine / Plate and Pillar coral (Porites rus) and Cauliflower coral (Pocillopora meandrina) bleached by warm sea temperatures during 2015 El Nino event, Honaunau Bay, Kona, Hawaii, USA.

Floris van Breugel / Death valley covered in mass of flowers of Desert gold (Geraea canescens) after El Nino rains, Death Valley, California, USA, February 2016

Floris van Breugel / Sand verbena (Abronia villosa) and Brown-eyed evening primrose (Camissonia claviformis) blooming in sand dunes, during super bloom caused by El Nino weather Death Valley, California, USA. March 2016.

Floris van Breugel / Sand verbena (Abronia villosa) blooming at the base of sand dunes, during super bloom caused by El Nino weather Death Valley, California, USA. February 2016

Floris van Breugel / Flowers blooming in Death Valley including Phacelia (Phacelia crenulata), Desert gold (Geraea canescens), Rock daisies (Perityle emori), and Brown-eyed evening primrose (Camissonia claviformis) during...

Roy Mangersnes / Bare coastal rocks on Santiago Island, Galapagos. April 2016. These rocks are normally covered with green algae, but the unusually warm El Nino waters have killed the algae.

Roy Mangersnes / Marine Iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) walking over bare coastal rocks, Santiago Island, Galapagos. April 2016. These rocks are normally filled with green algae, but the warm El Nino waters have kill...

Roy Mangersnes / Marine Iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) swimming up from deep water where it swam down to find algae of the coast, Fernandina Island, Galapagos. April 2016.

Roy Mangersnes / Skeleton of Marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) that probably died from starvation. Unusually warm El Nino waters have killed a lot of the algae which is the food for these iguanas. Fernandina isl...

Roy Mangersnes / Marine iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) basking on rock next to skeleton of one which starved to death. Unusually warm El Nino waters have killed a lot of the algae which is the food for these iguana...

Roy Mangersnes / Dead Marine Iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) with some alive in the background, Fernandina island, Galapagos. April 2016. The iguanas are probably dying of starvation as unusually warm El Nino water...

Roy Mangersnes / Marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) resting on the coastal rocks with Sally lightfoot crabs (Grapsus grapsus) on Santiago Island, Galapagagos.

Roy Mangersnes / Marine iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) basking on rock next to skeleton of one which starved to death. Unusually warm El Nino waters have killed a lot of the algae which is the food for these iguana...

Roy Mangersnes / Marine Iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) trying to feed on a thin layer of green algae on the coastal rocks on Santiago Island, Galapagagos. These rocks are normally covered with a thicker layer of gre...

Roy Mangersnes / Very underweight Marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) on the coastal rocks on Santiago Island, Galapagagos, April 2016. Much of the algae which these iguanas eat have died off due to unusually warm...

Roy Mangersnes / Dead Marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) on the coastal rocks on Santiago Island, Galapagagos, April 2016. It probably died of starvation as much of the algae in the region have died off due to un...

Roy Mangersnes / Bare coastal rocks on Santiago Island, Galapagos. April 2016. These rocks are normally covered with green algae, but the unusually warm El Nino waters have killed the algae.

Pascal Kobeh / Debris of dead corals (Acropora and Porites ) probably due to the bleaching of 1998 an El Nino year which killed a large amount of Maldive corals, Maldives. Indian Ocean.

Floris van Breugel / Desert Gold (Geraea canescens) and Sand Verbena (Abronia villosa) flowering in Death Valley National Park, California. Only once every 3-8 years do the flowers put on such a spectacular spring show;...

Juergen Freund / Artificial reef made of ceramic snowflakes to help rejuvenate the dead reef of El Nido. The 1998 El Nino caused a massive scale coral bleaching to this tourist town that used to have pristine coral re...

Juergen Freund / Artificial reef using ceramic snowflakes help rejuvenate the dead coral reefs of El Nido. The 1998 El Nino caused a massive scale coral bleaching to this tourist town that used to have pristine coral...

Juergen Freund / Artificial reef using ceramic snowflakes help rejuvenate the dead coral reefs of El Nido. The 1998 El Nino caused a massive scale coral bleaching to this tourist town that used to have pristine coral...

Juergen Freund / Artificial reef using ceramic snowflakes help rejuvenate the dead coral reefs of El Nido. The 1998 El Nino caused a massive scale coral bleaching to this tourist town that used to have pristine coral...

Doug Perrine / Clark's anemonefish {Amphiprion clarkii} in sea anemone {Entacmaea quadricolor} bleached white due to rise in water temperature during El Nino, Sipadan, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia