Category: News For Kids

  • Wildfires in Tasmania

    Wildfires in Tasmania

    A wildfire is an uncontrolled fire in vast area with lots of vegetation that can easily catch fire. Dry weather and strong winds help the wildfire spread speedily. Wildfires usually occur in Australia during the hotter months of the year due to Australia’s mostly hot, dry climate. Wildfires have swept across Tasmania, the island state of Australia, damaging large areas of…

  • Martian Flower

    Martian Flower

    Curiosity is always up to something. Now it has sent back images of a blooming flower on Martian soil. Actually it is  peculiar petal-shaped cluster which might or might not be a flower but it sure looks like one. A similar find in October last year had turned out to be a piece of plastic that…

  • World’s Largest Solar Plant in Ladakh

    World’s Largest Solar Plant in Ladakh

    World’s largest solar telescope will be in India soon. It will be located  near Pangong Lake Ladakh and would be used to study the sun’s atmosphere and understand more of it. Currently the world’s largest solar telescope McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope is  in Kitt Peak National Observatory at Arizona in the US. It will be a Rupee 300 Crore project…

  • Lance Armstrong Might Admit Wrongdoing

    Lance Armstrong Might Admit Wrongdoing

    In 2012, ace cyclist Lance Armstrong, fell from grace after being stripped of his 7 Tour de France titles over using medication for enhancing strength, which is not allowed in the sporting events. He was proved guilty by US anti doping officials on basis of testimonies from former teammates, laboratory results and various other things. Armstrong didn’t fight the…

  • Martian rock found in Sahara is 2 billion years old

    Martian rock found in Sahara is 2 billion years old

    A year back a coal coloured, baseball-size meteorite was discovered in the Sahara desert. It later turned out to be a rock from Mars! A year long study of the rock has revealed that the rock is around 2 billion years old and contains more water than other Martian rocks found till date. The rock…

  • Angry Birds Happy On Christmas!

    Angry Birds Happy On Christmas!

    Angry Birds were really happy this Christmas, according to the Rovio blog. This application had astounding 8 million downloads on Christmas day. It was a good month for the game company as there were 30 million downloads between December 22 and December 29. “Wow, what a year!” the Rovio blog post added. “We released four critically-acclaimed bestselling mobile…

  • China Restricts Use of Internet

    China Restricts Use of Internet

    Chinese goverment has imposed limitations on the use of internet by its people. The internet is often used as a medium to expose corrupt goverment officials. Chinese citizens often voice their criticisms by writing on the internet. They also use it to collect big crowds to have mass protests. Many Chinese people are not happy and believe that the…

  • Alaska in Deep Freeze

    Alaska in Deep Freeze

    While the global warming is melting the world, Alaska’s ice is becoming thicker and colder. Since the beginning of the 21st century, temperatures in Alaska are reportedly going down to 50 degrees below zero. Scientists are bewildered so as to why the temperatures at the Northwest US state are dropping? Some researchers believe that ocean phenomenon,…

  • Ghana says No to Used Fridges

    Ghana says No to Used Fridges

    Ghana’s New Year begins with a resolution to reduce energy consumption and to protect the environment. In order to implement this resolution Ghana has put a ban on the import of second-hand refrigerators. The old fridges have chemicals called Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) which are harmful for the Earth’s ozone layer. However, a lot of people are poor and…

  • New Year Message by North Korea’s Leader

    New Year Message by North Korea’s Leader

    The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un  made a very rare television appearance on new year’s eve. In his speech, Kim Jong-un suggested that North Korea will work hard to end the confrontation with South Korea. He also said that there was an immediate need to improve the country’s economy. North Korea launched a long-range missile last…

  • Flash Floods in Peru and Spain

    Flash Floods in Peru and Spain

    Flash floods occur when due to incessant rain, river water level rises fast and eventually reaches the ground. Just a few days back flash floods wrecked havoc in United Kingdom. Now it was turn of South America and Spain. Torrential rains in Peru, South America, have caused river Amazon to overflow. This has flooded the central Amazon…

  • China inaugurates Longest Bullet Train Route

    China inaugurates Longest Bullet Train Route

    China launches World’s longest high speed passenger train route. The total distance travelled by the train will be 2,298km!! The Chinese bullet train will start from Beijing and travel all the way to China’s southern city of Guangzhou. Guangzhou,lies in the Guangdong province and is the third largest Chinese city and southern China’s largest city. Guangzhou…