News For Kids

In Greenland, big, slow ice rivers are melting. These are glaciers. Climate change is melting them. 在冰島，因為氣候快速變遷，巨大的冰川正在融化。 Click HERE for full transcript.

Something very exciting happened in Taichung. Afast race car raced on Shizheng Road! Sixty thousand people came to watch! It was a fun, noisy day! 台中有一件刺激的事情！一輛超快的賽車在市政路上飆車，吸引六萬人來觀看，是熱鬧的一天！ ... Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, including a vocabulary list and quiz!

A Big Social Media Change for Teens Many teenagers are on social media. Some of their accounts are changing … 有很多青少年用社群媒體，有一些帳號將會有很大的改變。 Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, including a vocabulary list and quiz!

Many People Want to Be Flight Attendants What do you want to be when you grow up? Maybe you want to be a firefighter or a police officer. You can help people. Maybe you want to be a race car driver. You can drive fast! 你長大之後想做什麼呢? 也許你想當消防員或警察幫助別人，或是當賽車手開快車! Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, including a vocabulary list and quiz!

The Saisiyat are one of the Indigenous Taiwanese Peoples. Long ago, there were many Saisiyat people. Today, there are around six thousand Saisiyat in Taiwan. 賽夏族是台灣的原住民族，原本人口很多的他們，現在只有大約 6 千人。 Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, including a vocabulary list and quiz!

Saving Lost Little Birds On a small island in Iceland, families join the "Puffin Patrol." They have boxes and flashlights. They search the streets at night. They look for lost pufflings! 在冰島，有一些家庭會加入海鸚鵡巡邏隊。他們會在晚上帶著箱子跟手電筒，到街上尋找走失的小海鸚鵡！ Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, including a vocabulary list and quiz!

Mushroom Mycelia Move Robots Robots can do many things. But they need to moveto do those things. Scientists are looking for new ways to make robots move. With no batteries or wires, robots could do many more things. 機器人可以做很多事，科學家正在找出不用電池或電線就能移動的方法，這樣機器人就可以做更多事! Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, including a vocabulary list and quiz!

Taiwan Sends Two Satellites into Space Did you know Taiwan has a space agency? It's called TASA. It does cool things! 你知道台灣有太空總署 TASA 嗎? 他們會做些很酷的事情。 Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, including a vocabulary list and quiz!

In the Olympics, pole vaulters run with a long pole. They hold the pole and jump high! They let go of the pole! They go over a high bar! They come down on a MAT so they don't get hurt. The pole vaulter with the highest jump wins! 奧運有撐竿跳項目，運動員握著長長的竿子快跑，然後撐在地上讓自己跳起來，越過欄杆，落在軟墊上，跳最高的就能獲勝!Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, vocabulary...

Taiwan's Giant Trees Need Help On a mountain in Taiwan, a scientist climbs a giant tree. It is 67 meters tall. That's as tall as a 20-story building! 在台灣的山上，科學家正在攀爬一棵巨大的樹。這棵樹有 67 公尺高，就像 20 層樓那麼高! Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, including a vocabulary list and quiz!

Guardian of the Gas Station Narrator: There's a brave dog in Peru. He is a hero at a gas station! 祕魯的一個加油站裡，有一隻勇敢的狗狗英雄! Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, including a vocabulary list and quiz!

Telling the Taroko People's Past Have you been to Taroko Gorge? It's in Hualien. It's very beautiful. 你去過花蓮的太魯閣峽谷嗎? 那裏很漂亮。 Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, including a vocabulary list and quiz!

Scientists Find Way to Make Tap Water Good Very small pieces of plastic are in our tap water. These pieces are called microplastics. They are so small we can’t see them. And they are in our bodies too. This is NOT good for us! 我們喝的水裡，有一些小到看不見的塑膠微粒，跑到身體裡對我們很不好喔！ Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, including a vocabulary list and quiz!

Trick or Treat in Taiwan Today is an exciting day in Taiwan! Halloween is here! 大家期待的萬聖節就是今天! Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, including a vocabulary list and quiz!

Scientist Saving Starfish The Earth has had starfish for a very long time. There were starfish before dinosaurs! 海星在地球生活很久，牠們在恐龍之前就存在了。 Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, including a vocabulary list and the quiz!

A New Pasta Italians Are Mad About A big U.S. company is selling new spaghetti. But guess what? Italians, who love pasta, are mad about this! 一家美國大公司推出了新款義大利麵，但是熱愛義大利麵的義大利人很生氣，這是為甚麼呢? Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, including a vocabulary list and quiz!

Typhoon Holidays Typhoons can be very strong. Their fast winds and heavy rain cause lots of damage. Typhoons can kill people. 颱風有很強的威力，它帶來的強風跟豪雨可能造成很多破壞，甚至奪走人的生命。 Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, including a vocabulary list and quiz!

Finding Formosan Black Bears Formosan black bears are Taiwan's bear. They have a white "V" on their chests. We see cute Formosan black bear toys and pictures everywhere. But there are few real bears. There are only 200 to 600 of them. 台灣黑熊的胸前有白色的 V 字形，非常可愛。我們常看到牠們的照片或玩具，但真正的台灣黑熊非常少，只有 200 到 600 隻。 Click HERE to see the full episode tr...

New Hakka Eight-Tone Music Taiwan is home to lots of cultures. The Hakka culture is one. 台灣有非常豐富、多元的文化，客家文化是其中之一。 Click HERE to see the full episode transcript.

Socktober Helps People Stay Warm One October, some kids in the U.S. learned about people with no homes. The kids wanted to help them very much. They talked to their teacher about helping. 有一年的十月，美國幾位兒童得知有人無家可歸，就問老師怎麼幫助那些人。 Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, including a vocabulary list and quiz!

Scientists Studying Small Human Bones on Island Twenty years ago, scientists found bones on an island in Indonesia. The bones are from sixty thousand to one hundred thousand years old! 二十年前，科學家在印尼一座小島上，發現一些人骨化石，大約有六萬到十萬年的歷史! Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, include a vocabulary list and quiz!

Flying Robots to Clean Up Mount Everest Mount Everest is the tallest mountain on Earth. Every year, many people climb it. But they leave a lot of trash. It makes the mountain dirty and dangerous. 聖母峰是世界最高峰，每年都有很多人去攀登，但是他們留下很多垃圾，讓聖母峰變得又髒又危險。 Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, including a vocabulary list and quiz!

Man Saves License Plates After Typhoon A man in a yellow raincoat got off his scooter. He was holding a plastic bag. He walked into a police station. What was he doing there? 穿著黃色雨衣的男人，下了機車，提著一袋塑膠袋走進警察局。他在做甚麼呢? Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, including the vocabulary list and a quiz to test your understanding!

South Korea Doesn't Waste Food Oh no! The kids didn't eat all their lunch! Did you know that food that is not eaten is called "food waste"? 糟了，這些孩子們沒有把午餐吃完，你知道剩下的食物就會變成廚餘了嗎! Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, including vocabulary and quiz!

Did you watch the Summer Olympics a few months ago? Paris was very hot. The hottest days were more than thirty-five degrees! That is hot for Paris! Click HERE to see the full episode transcript.