Scientists in Thailand want to know more about the North Pole. A team of 13 teachers, diving experts, and students are planning a trip there to study climate change, do underwater exploration, and learn more about how microplastics are affecting…
Picture five grocery bags of plastic trash, piled high along every foot of coastline on Earth. That’s about how much plastic waste ends up in the oceans each year. Some of the plastic is thrown off ships. But most makes…
Two flags fly on the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Australia. Once is the Australia flag. The other is the NSW flag. NSW stands for New South Wales, the state on the east coast of Australia. Sydney is the capital of…
Vroom vroom! You won’t hear that on a Formula E race track. That’s because all Formula E cars are electric-powered. It’s said the gearbox sounds like Luke Skywalker’s landspeeder. Except for that, the cars barely make a sound. They can…
NASA wants to build an internet in the solar system. The agency is working now on getting WiFi in space. It’s not easy. Connection links are fragile. Planets are very far apart. An instant message won’t be instant, even if…
Mount Kilauea on Hawaii’s Big Island is one of the world’s most active volcanoes. Its latest eruption started in 1983 and has been going on ever since. On May 3, 2018, the island was struck by a 5.0-magnitude earthquake. Hours…
The driver of a big truck ignored warning signs and drove across a large area of Peru’s ancient Nazca Lines. He left deep tire marks in the ground and damaged three of the geoglyphs. The site is on a large…
The border between the US and Mexico is 2,000 miles long. It passes through deserts, mountains, rivers, streams, forests, wetlands, marshes, and swamps. Many of these are biologically diverse. Some species live nowhere else on Earth. Fences harm wildlife, disrupt…