Newsy Pooloozi - The News Pod for Kids

News Update: Hear how and why US flash floods cause havoc, that tuna is back from the brink of extinction, Marvel's first Asian superhero “marvels” the box office and the Japanese artist who's literally “out of the box!”.  Artwork this week is courtesy of Edie Cizeika Bower

News Update: Ancient "god of death" whale fossil found (in a  desert?!), hear our hurricane explainer and about baseball’s new spit-free ball,  also Switzerland’s flying cows and Australia’s hearty sheep

News Update: This week find out how researchers can predict when and where lightning will strike, new vaccine for kids on the block, longest vaccination trek, Int'l Dog Day, bumblebee pet

News Update: Move over Zeppelins – airships get a rebirth, turmoil in Afghanistan as US troops leave and Taliban take over, research shows apes like to mind their manners – find out how on this week’s episode!

News Update: Hear the highlights of joy and good sportsmanship from Tokyo's Olympic 2020, India’s hockey triumphs, the human medicine that works on diseased coral and the underwater sculpture museum in Cyprus.

Hear how smart mouth-guards can revolutionize high-impact sports, what surfers and skateboarders think of their sports' Olympic debut, a new app for International Cat Day and the tale of the two-headed turtle! This episode Leela is co-hosted by Leela and our Sports Correspondent, Porter Robbins.

Last of our slim summer “quick dips” into world news, followed by a guest episode from the Curious Kid Podcast (Curious About Sharks)!

So we're slimming down for summer this July, but since the news doesn't stop we're giving you a "quick dip" of world news, followed by a guest episode from the Cool Facts About Animals podcast (Mega Plastic episode)!

Hear our "quick dip" of world news, as we slim down for summer, followed by a guest episode from The Dorktales Storytime podcast - a "Hidden History" about native American engineer, Mary Golda Ross!

Hear the top five stories our loyal listers nominated as their favorite covered on Newsy Jacuzzi during our first year!

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 

Hear why Derek Chauvin's guilty verdict is important for America, how NASA makes space history with the first-ever flight on another planet, soccer's Super League skirmish and MIT researchers translate spider "talk."  All that and more on this week's episode!   And a huge thank you to Yule Liu for her delightful artwork rendition of NASA's Ingenuity. Courtroom sketch is Reuters/Jane Rosenberg. 

Hear about the discovery of Egypt’s lost “golden city," Georgia’s debate over a new voting law, the French love for French-bread, Lego larceny (stop thief!) and the real (ish) Candy Land in California and more this week!

Hear about the cargo ship chaos, space center on-the-go, how The Mississippi River got clean, Nat’l Poetry Month and Cairo's march of the mummies

Happy Holi, Happy Easter and April Fools'! Hear about Spring celebrations, Spain's 4-day week, the cotoneaster pollution-eating plant, NASA's breath box on Mars and crazy Easter candy! Five unbelievable stories - four are totally true, but one will April Fool you!

The craze for pets during the pandemic takes effect! Find out which country is happiest, what people will do for free sushi and stunning Rubik’s Cube moves in India - all that and more in this week's Newsy Jacuzzi! And for more of what you heard... See the list of the UK's  most popular pandemic pet names here: UK’s most popular lockdown pet names revealed - CBBC Newsround Check out the Rubik's cu...