Newsy Pooloozi - The News Pod for Kids

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Kid News This Week: India’s toxic air, Florida space launch, Sikh holiday, locusts on EU menu Nov 17, 2021

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Find out the cause of the toxic air shutting parts of New Delhi, hear a special report from the Cape Canaveral space launch, find out how Sikhs celebrate Guru Nanak Jyanti and why locusts become the second insect on the EU's “novel food” list

Kid News This Week: Global eco summit, India’s floating power station, bad winners, blue bananas Nov 10, 2021

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Will COP26 help save the planet? We unpack the global eco summit, plus hear about India’s floating solar power station, a California high school football team’s bad win and enter: the blue banana!

Kid News This Week: Diwali around the world, AI and Beethoven’s 10th, Ireland’s microplastic sucker Nov 03, 2021

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This week hear why India celebrates its "Festival of Lights," plus how Hindus celebrate Diwali around the world. Also in the episode, artificial intelligence lends Beethoven a helping hand and a microplastic sucking device developed by a young Irish scientist.

Kid News This Week: Honeybees scare, Spain's cursed village, shadow scientists, Mexico's doll island Oct 27, 2021

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Kid News This Week: Hear what honeybees have to do with Oct 31 (it's scary candy news!), Halloween’s history, Spain’s witchy village, shadow scientists in deep space and Mexico’s doll island on this special spooky episode!

Kid News This Week: Flying microchips, Kerala exodus, California “snake-mare,” airport pig patrol Oct 20, 2021

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Kid News This Week: Microchip smaller than an ant can fly! Kerala's floods cause exodus, California's under-house snake pit, “ pig patrol” foil airport geese threat in Netherlands

Kid News This Week: Battle against mosquitoes, beavers are back, clean cling-film, cow-poo zapper Oct 13, 2021

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Kid News This Week: In humanity's battle against mosquitoes – should we swat or swap them? Also, Britain’s beavers are back, cleaner cling-film is being developed and how to make cow poo less toxic for the environment? A poo zapper, naturally. All that and more on this week’s news pool for curious kids and adults!

Kid News This Week: Mega comet coming, Hollywood ups and downs, UK petrol crisis, taxi-top gardens Oct 06, 2021

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A mega comet is heading for the sun in the next 10 years, Hollywood's box office highs but threat of workers strike looms low, UK's petrol crisis and Thailand’s taxi-top gardens - all this week in the Newsy Pooloozi news pool for kids!

Newsy gets a new name! Plus “batsman” is out and new spider app Sep 29, 2021

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Goodbye Newsy Jacuzzi, hello Newsy Pooloozi! We tell you why, plus the game of cricket also gets a name change, the UK spends millions on carbon suckers and a new spider app helps arachnophobia.

Kid News This Week: Everyday astronauts, A.I. helps art, Spain’s volcano, Germany’s moo-loo Sep 22, 2021

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Hear about the everyday astronauts - private citizens who spent three days in space, plus how artificial intelligence lends a helping hand in art, Spain’s spewing volcano and Germany’s Moo-Loo!

Kid News This Week: India’s festive season, “fan-plastic” food wrap, tennis wonder, Ig Nobel prizes Sep 15, 2021

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India’s four-month festival season begins with Ganpati, new “fan-plastic” biodegradable food wrap, Emma Raducanu wows the world and Ig Nobel prizes make us laugh!