Kids News - Environment Articles

Visit Japan's Jigokudani Monkey Park during the winter months, and you will be in for a real treat. That's because this is the only place in the world where you will encounter monkeys, hanging out, in a 'Jacuzzi'...

A video camera placed by the World Wildlife Association deep in Indonesia's Sumatran Jungle recently managed to capture the first known pictures of rare Sumatran tigers roaming in the wild....

While we have always known about the beautiful creatures that inhabit our oceans, they have usually been seen only by divers and marine scientists, brave enough to venture into the deep seas. However, now thanks to advanced cameras, they are able to share their discoveries with the rest of the world...

As with any other place this time of the year, a 10m (33ft), beautifully decorated Christmas tree is the focal point of all Christmas activities at Cornwall's Eden Project. However, this is no ordinary Douglas Fir or Pine tree....

A massive iceberg, twice the size of Australia's Sydney's harbor, is making its way toward the continent. Measuring 12 miles in length by 5 miles in width, it is believed to be a piece from the chunk of Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf that broke off in 2000....

Like most teenagers, 12-year old Daniel and 15 year-old Isobel were a little careless about their electricity use.They often forgot to switch off the lights, unplug their laptops and left the central heating on, as they dashed out to school, each morning - However, that was all before the family took part in an unusual experiment conducted by British television station BBC One, for its science show 'Big Bang Theory'....

Yi Cui, an assistant professor for material sciences and engineering at Calfornia's prestigious Stanford University has come up with an ingenious and lightweight way to store power - making batteries using plain-vanilla copier paper....

On December 17th, 1903 the Wright brothers revolutionized our world when they piloted their first powered flight that went up 20ft, lasted for 12 seconds and traveled a distance of 120ft. Now, almost 106 years later, two Swiss inventors have achieved a similar feat, with the successful maiden voyage of the world's first piloted solar-powered airplane - the Solar Impulse....

The International Space Station allows astronauts to live in space for extended amounts of time, enabling them to explore the mysteries outside our Universe and conduct extensive experiments. However, nothing like that exists for our oceans, and thanks to the high water pressure, oceanographers are able to explore what lies underneath, for very short spans of time....