FILE - Waves lap the beach where remains of Afeli Bernice Adzo's family home stand after it was destroyed by coastal erosion in Avegadzi, Ghana, March 5, 2025 (AP Photo/Misper Apawu, File)
FILE - A woman cools herself outside the Palace of Westminster in London, May 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
FILE - A faithful protects from the hot sun before Pope Leo XIV's weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, May 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
FILE - A person uses a mini electric fan as they wait on a subway platform during a heat advisory in New York, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Adam Gray, File)
FILE - Tourists visit the 5th century BC Propylaea on the Acropolis Hill during a hot day in Athens, Greece, May 28, 2026.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)
FILE - Tourists wear hats to protect themselves from the sun as they admire one of the facades of the Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona, Spain, May 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
FILE - A person uses a fan as they wait in line to purchase Broadway tickets in Times Square, during a heat advisory in New York, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Adam Gray, File)
FILE - People enjoy the sun next to the Eiffel Tower in Paris, May 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla, File)
In a year of cataclysm, some world leaders at this week’s annual United Nations meeting are taking the long view.
A new United Nations science report on climate change says cutting down trees is making the world hotter and hungrier.