Category: Kids News

Scientists working in techno-agriculture, find ways to combine technology and farming. They’ve been experimenting, by covering fields with canopies of translucent solar panels. The red light plants need for photosynthesis has longer wavelengths, and can pass right through. The blue light, with shorter wavelengths, is absorbed by the panels, and creates solar energy.

Every year, more than 18,000,000,000 diapers are discarded in United States landfills, taking hundreds of years to decompose. HIRO diapers aim to change that. They are designed to be eaten by fungi. Each diaper comes with a packet of fungi, to be tossed with the used diaper. The fungi turn the diaper, into soil.

Today is No Dirty Dishes Day. First things first: clean all the dishes in the sink! Then don’t use any dishes, utensils, or cookware all day. Try cooking things on a stick, over a fire. It’s also Museum Day. Whether you like history, toilet seat art, airplanes, or mustard, it’s in a museum somewhere!

16-year-olds Vivaan Chhawchharia, Ariana Agarwal, and Avyana Mehta won the Earth Prize for Asia, by creating a new way to remove microplastics. Their creation, called Plas-Stick, uses powdered tamarind seeds as the base for a clumping agent. It causes plastics to form a mass in water, which can then be removed with a magnet.

Today is Pack Rat Day! Do you pick up shiny objects and cool trinkets to save forever in your house? You’re just like a packrat! They collect treasures for their nests, or middens. Packrat middens are valuable to paleobiologists because they can preserve plants, pollen, and artifacts for 50,000 years. Will they study your midden someday?

Did you know, it’s Take Your Parents To The Playground Day? Gather some snacks from the kitchen, and a ball or frisbee, then surprise them with your plans for a picnic at the park! Be sure to push them on the swings, and catch them when they come down the slide, haha!

Today is Mushroom Hunting Day. Explore in the woods, to see how many different mushrooms you can find. Take photos, and learn to identify them. Don’t eat any, unless you have a mycologist with you, which is someone who studies fungi. They know which mushrooms can kill you, and which ones are delicious.

Today is Cherry Cobbler Day, Walnut Day, and World Baking Day, so celebrate by baking a delicious cherry cobbler, topped with healthy walnuts. Then call your friends, to celebrate World Telecommunications Day. You can tell them about your delicious baked goods, and make their mouths water. Better yet, have a video chat picnic!

Did you know, it’s River Cleanup Day? Grab trash bags and a pair of gloves, and gather your friends and family, to beautify a stream near you. After you pull out the trash, you’ll realize how much plastic accumulates in nature. The ecosystem of plants and animals will appreciate your hard work!

Today is Do Something Good For Your Neighbor Day. It’s nice to make people happy! It’s also Love A Tree Day. Hug your favorite tree, and thank it for giving you shade and oxygen. Since it’s Drawing Day too, maybe you can draw a picture of a lovely tree, to give to your neighbor!