A massive report studying nearly 14.5 million students in 61 countries found that long-term heat exposure is interfering with students' abilities to learn —and prolonged heat streaks are only getting worse.
Why it matters: Increasingly high temperatures are worsening disparate educational outcomes, with the potential for long-term impacts on graduation rates and cognitive ability to grow as the globe continues to warm.
President Trump's first term provoked the movement for a Green New Deal. His second term may have killed it.
Why it matters: Democrats aren't explicitly disavowing the Green New Deal, but they've abruptly stopped talking about it as they scramble to find new ways to talk about climate change.
Nuclear fusion startup Helion,whose backers include Sam Altman, has started site prep in Washington state for a reactor it hopes to have running by 2028.
Why it matters: Fusion companies are inching closer to bringing the tech, long considered a distant dream, into commercial reality.
Trade could be an impetusbehind President Trump's threat to impose some kind of penalty on India over its imports of Russian energy.
Why it matters: It would mark the first tangible carry-through from Trump's threats to hit Russian buyers to create leverage for a cease-fire in Ukraine.
A Delta Air Lines flight from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam was diverted to Minneapolis Wednesday night after it "encountered significant turbulence" that resulted in 25 people being taken to local hospitals, the airline said.
The big picture: The plane was carrying 275 passengers and 13 crew when it was forced to make the emergency landing at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, a Delta spokesperson said in an emailed statement.
