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 what it said was an "overlooked" aspect of the climate crisis.

The United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF, has urged stakeholders to intensify efforts to address the alarming statistic of 10.2 million primary school-aged children currently out of school in Nigeria.

"Children cannot concentrate in classrooms that offer no respite from sweltering heat."

A new UNICEF report finds that heat waves, cyclones, floods and storms impacted education most severely in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Mozambique, Pakistan and the Philippines. Flooding interrupted schooling for Tawhida,

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