Students face growing weather-related disruptions

From heatwaves to cyclones and flooding, schools around the world struggle to adapt to increasingly unpredictable conditions. Photo: Freepik

At least 242 million children in 85 countries had their schooling interrupted last year because of heatwaves, cyclones, flooding and other extreme weather, the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) said in a new report recently.

Unicef said it amounted to one in seven school-going children across the world being kept out of class at some point in 2024 because of climate hazards.