UNICEF: Climate hazards disrupted schooling for 171 million students
A UNICEF analysis says climate hazards disrupted schooling for at least 171 million students in 2025, with poorer and crisis-affected communities bearing the heaviest burden.
Climate Change
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August 2026 Tied the Global Temperature Record as El Niño Intensifies
August tied the global heat record as El Niño strengthened, raising regional risks for heat, drought, flooding, wildfire, food, water and energy.
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A strengthening El Niño could bring a hotter, more disruptive end to 2026
NOAA sees a high likelihood of a very strong El Niño late in 2026, raising the odds of shifting rainfall, heat, floods, drought and food disruption.
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Study Links Stronger El Niño Variability to a Warmer Climate
A new coral study links stronger El Niño variability to human-caused warming as a very strong 2026 event develops, but U.S. winter effects remain uncertain.
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Galápagos Coral Record Points to Stronger El Niño Variability
A new coral-based reconstruction finds unusually strong eastern-Pacific El Niño variability in recent decades, as a separate 2026 event strengthens.
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Europe’s Drought and Heat Push Wildfire and River Risks Into Late Summer
A new EU assessment says worsening drought is driving elevated wildfire risk, exceptionally low rivers and pressure on farming, power, shipping and health.
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Extreme Heat in Las Vegas Is Complicating Takeoffs and Raising Delay Risks
Extreme summer heat is making aircraft takeoff calculations more difficult in Las Vegas and can contribute to flight delays, researchers say.
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UN Climate Chief Simon Stiell Warns Escalating Disasters Are Straining Lives and Economies
UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell warned July 28 that increasingly frequent, intense and costly heatwaves, floods and storms are putting lives and economies worldwide at risk.
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Climate change raised 2026 Spain, France fire-weather odds
A rapid attribution analysis found human-caused warming sharply increased the odds of extreme fire weather in Spain and France as EU burned area surpassed 2025.
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Pacific Climate Priorities Gain a Formal Place on the Road to COP31
A UN climate gathering in Nadi will bring Pacific knowledge holders and communities into the COP31 process, but it cannot adopt binding decisions.
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Colorado River proposal could force deeper cuts in 3 states
A final federal environmental review advances a plan that could reduce Colorado River use in Arizona, California and Nevada after 2026.
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Europe’s late-June heat wave turns deadly as climate attribution sharpens the warning
World Climate Disaster Health and Humanitarian Scan – Record June heat killed people across France and Spain, broke temperature records in Germany and the Czech Republic, and renewed warnings about preventable heat deaths.