Newsy Pooloozi - The News Pod for Kids

We've produced a year's worth of weekly world news podcasts for kids (and quite a few adults too)!  Hear us reflect back on the past year and play the top stories nominated by our listeners. And play the best (or worst!) of our bloopers as well!

A major Hollywood movie is in the works about the Canadian “tree talk” pioneer, there's a new bamboo bat for cricket, a Spanish shepherdess school is calling all Bo-Peeps and a Swedish city embraces its rain

British scientists discover fruit flies get hangry (who knew!), a New Delhi teen creates affordable air purifiers, Spain’s robot chef creates a stir and London’s sky-pool gives onlookers the heebeegeebees!

Mega space news from new missions to Venus, fly-by of Jupiter moon, worms head space and kites on Mars, plus a cargo ship fire leads to plastic pollution for Sri Lanka, EV battery recycling break-through and Megawa, the mine-sniffing "Hero Rat," retires .

Hear how the Maldives will create a "floating city" in hopes of combating rising seas that could wipe the archipelago out, how Russia and the US race to get dramatic in space, the latest on the swarms of stinky and tasty (oh, really?!) cicadas in the eastern part of America  and one Frenchman's secret, snotty ingredient for soap!

The US finally - openly - investigates UFOs, international burger day for earthlings (but maybe aliens too?!), dramarama online theatre workshops are all the rage and the quaint English take to croquet to battle out a word dispute. 

Hear how Taiwan lives through its worst drought in 56 years, plus we explain the US gas ransom hack, how Brits trade their stiff-upper-lip for hugs, how Australia's overrun by mice and the discovery of the many-butted marine worm we like to call the "cetibutt!" 

A quarter of humanity celebrates Eid, COVID is making us kinder, biggest plane on path to rocket launch, Duke of Burgundy butterfly flutters back from brink of extinction and which is better for urban lawns? It's sheep versus lawnmowers. All that and more on this week's episode!

Thanks to Eestends for the music: Travis Scott RODEO X Kanye Type Beat  used in the Sheep V Lawnmower story. 

Get ready - the cicadas are coming to the US! Also, bacteria fights microplastic, Girl Scout cookie meltdown, bookworms get crazy for book clubs, lamprey bloodsucker fish fights extinction in Australia. 

(This week's art is courtesy of Yule Liu!)

As India buckles under a COVID crisis, we hear from our kid correspondent who’s recovered from the virus, plus an episode full of distraction hacks from dancing, to Olympic "gaming" (yes, gaming), a civics lesson in US trials plus pet love in Central Asia