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El Nino Watch: the impacts around the world this week
Officials warn the warming Pacific pattern is driving fires, haze and electricity shortages, with tens of thousands sickened and 46 orangutans rescued.
Here is a look at how this year's phenomenon, in which a warmer sea surface shifts global weather patterns, has been affecting people globally:
Indonesia and Amazon fires, orangutans rescued
El Nino is associated with strong drought in Indonesia, where tracts of forest and plantations have been burning in biodiverse Borneo and the South Sumatra region for months.
The fires have caused a regional haze crisis, with Malaysia last week closing schoo…