Kids News - Earth Articles

The next time you get the urge to toss a coin into a lake, river, stream or even the fountain in your neighborhood for 'good luck', resist it for your good fortune may not be so good for the recipient of the foreign object....

This Saturday, don't surprised or alarmed if your city, neighborhood or street suddenly goes dark for an hour, starting at 8.30pm, local time. It is not because of a natural disaster nor is it because these people haven't paid their electricity bills - They are simply joining the millions of people to celebrate Earth Hour, by turning off their lights and other electrical devices for 60 minutes....

There is no doubt that October 10th, 2010 or 10/10/10, is a special day, given that most of us will not be around to see this sequence when it occurs again, on October 10th, 2110. However, is it the luckiest day of the century? Depends on who you ask!...

For many years now, it has been believed that our planet Earth is about 4.567 billion years old - Now, a new study conducted by scientists at the University of Cambridge's Trinity College has revealed that we may have overestimated the date - by about 70 million years!...

This Saturday, millions of people in 3,100 cities from 121 countries, all across the seven continents will switch off their lights for one hour, starting from 8.30-9.30pm local time, in honor of Earth Hour 2010....

In this era, when we are all want to do something "Green' to save the environment, why not make some toys and games, instead of purchasing them - not only will that save our resources, but also, some of your hard-earned green moola - And, they are a lot of fun!...

If you participated in Earth Hour this Saturday, you probably realized how something as small as switching the lights off for an hour, could make a big difference in saving our Earth....

Don't be surprised if the streets around you go dark for an hour at 8.30pm (local time) on Saturday, March 28th. It isn't a power outage, just people trying to save the Earth - one light bulb at a time!...

Two geologists believe they have discovered what could be the world's oldest rocks near the Eastern shores of Hudson Bay in North Quebec. Jonathan O'Neil from McGill University and Richard Carlson from Carnegie Institution of Washington say that tests conducted on the rocks from this region, indicate that they could be as old as 4.28 billion years old, only 300,000 years younger than the Earth....