'242 mn children's schooling disrupted by climate shocks in 2024'

Students from kindergarten to high school saw classes suspended, vacations moved, reopenings delayed, timetables shifted and even schools damaged or destroyed over the year due to climatic shocks, the available data showed.

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Children return from school during heavy rain in Feni, Bangladesh, on October 6, 2024. Climate change makes monsoons more extreme. Monsoons become increasingly erratic each year, with experts pointing to climate change as a significant factor. (Photos by NurPhoto via AFP)
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Extreme weather disrupted the schooling of about 242 million children in 85 countries last year -- roughly one in seven students, the UN children's agency reported Thursday, deploring

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