Newsy Pooloozi - The News Pod for Kids

Kid News This Week: Best oddballs of the year from sea-sponge snot and deep-sea blue goo to Spain’s ghost village, Hong Kong’s dumbest thieves, Malaysia’s slithery plane passenger, Vietnam’s glass bottom bridge, the strongest shoulders and the most expensive shoes, ever!

Kid News This Week: Hear the first in our special holiday "Best Of" series - kicking it off with our best nature stories for 2022 from Earth Day to the return of cheetahs to India, Australia’s endangered koalas, Bangladesh’s oyster reef, the rebranding of a fish as carp becomes copi, swimming spinosaurs, feeding Florida’s manatees and drumming chimpanzees! 

Kid News This Week: Scientists make out of this world material - tetrataenite– in a lab (!) that could help save the world! Plus Prince William’s Earthshot prizes from innovative eco-warriors, Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year (any idea what goblin-mode means?!?), Taylor Swift-versus-Australia’s endangered frogs and high school students in Utah make an epic gingerbread house!

Kid News This Week: Unusual protests in authoritarian China, two young inventors create plastic recycle machine that makes 3D printer filament, spring comes early in UK – what are the knock-on effects? – and down under in New Zealand some young and enthusiastic rat-catchers help save kiwi birds by ridding the island of rodents

Kid News This Week: One of the biggest sporting events on earth kicks off in the desert of Qatar – we’ll tell you why World Cup 2022 is five months late, plus NASA’s Artemis 1 rocket finally takes off, Taylor Swift’s ticket woes, Taiwan’s peace panda dies but will it end “panda diplomacy” and a message in a bottle is found – but you won’t guess where! 

Kid News This Week: There are now 8 billion earthlings, Switzerland breaks record with the world’s longest train, Banksy’s 8 artworks in Ukraine, Taylor Swifts MTV Europe sweep and the men who braid the their beards together to create the longest beard in the world, beating Germany. 

Kid News This Week: Who knew busy bees like to play not just make honey?! Speaking of bees – their numbers are dropping, so the UK is creating special bus stops to attract bees and butterflies to help pollinate more plants. We’ll also give you the latest on the anti-hijab protest in Iran – with a woman rock-climber ditching her headscarf in a recent competition. Also, a major environment summit is taking place in Egypt – COP 27 – we’ll tell you what it means and why it’s important. Plus – new fashion in France for green cycling hearse for a pedestrian funeral procession. All that and more this week on the only world news podcast for kids (and adults too!).

Kid News This Week: Hear Earth’s magnetic field courtesy of the European Space Agency (ESA), the sad news of South Korea’s stampede and India’s bridge collapse, Taylor Swift tops the pops and breaks pop music records, candy inflation effects Halloween and nose picking primates discovered – yes, aye-ayes like to use their middle finger for a snot search! All that and more this week. 

Kids News This Week: Autum is a season full of festivals from the scary to the sweet - this autumn festival capsule has the story behind most of them. From Halloween in the US to Asia's Hungry Ghost Festival and Mexico's Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Never mind the Indian festivals, including Diwali for Hindus and Guru Nanak, the biggest festival for the Sikhs. Oh, and did we mention the British Guy Fawkes festival, also called Bonfire Night? Have a listen to get into the festive mood!

Kids News This Week: Did you know mushrooms "chat" to each other? Or that dancing can be used to power a Scottish nightclub? Hear all about it,  plus a new era in tennis as sporting greats go from the court and a San Francisco cafe dishes up a posh dog's dinner for the city's many pups -- all this week on the only world news podcast for curious kids and adults!