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Oceans - The mighty water bodies!

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Hi there kids, and welcome back to KidsCast ! Today we are going to learn about one of the coolest things on earth: The Oceans!  Did you know that the oceans cover more than 70% of the Earth's surface? That’s a lot of water! The ocean is so big that we’re still discovering new things about it all the time. Now let us learn more about them in detail! About the Oceans: Oceans are giant bodies of water that cover most of our planet. This water is mostly very salty and is salt water. They are home to millions of different creatures, from tiny fishes to huge whales. The oceans help to regulate the Earth's climate and provide us with food, transportation, and many other resources. Whenever you see the blue colour in an earth's picture, all that blue colour is oceans mostly! This is how an Ocean looks like from the Ocean's Surface The oceans are made up of different layers. The top layer, where the sunlight can reach, is called the “ sunlight zone .” This is where most of t...

Are Drones our Future? Let's See!

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Hey Kids! Welcome back to KidsCast! We're glad to see you again! Well not 'see', because you are reading this article, but yeah! So, have you ever heard of drones ? Sometimes it's confusing because drones are two things: Quadcopter drones, and Military aircraft drones. But we are talking about Quadcopter drones! Well, they are trendy these days, because... Well, there are many reasons for it! They are smart-looking, cool, and easy to fly! But the question for this article is, will these quadcopter drones be our future? Will they be super common in the future? Well, let's know and so let's begin! What are Quadcopter Drones? So before we discuss will these machines be in our future, it will be a good idea to know a bit more about them. So, Quadcopter Drones are small flying machines, with four propellers, which kind of look like small fans. These propellers help these drones to lift from the ground and fly in the air. These drones are controlled by someone manua...

Saving the Earth - Our Responsibily!

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Hello Children! As today is Earth Day , hence we had written this Article. Children, did you know plastic was first made by accident in 1907 by a Belgian-American chemist Leo Baekeland? The same plastic that was a new discovery then is now ending up in natural environments like the oceans that disrupt many aquatic life forms. Plastic pollution was first noticed as a problem when scientists were carrying out the plankton study in the late 1960s and the early 1970s. During researching the Sargasso Sea marine biologist Ed Carpenter first found white specks floating around brown sargassum seaweed later they realized it was plastic. If we all start now by making rules to not use plastic and stop throwing waste into oceans it's a start to save the planet.      Global warming  Global warming I'm sure you’ve heard of, you should know just because we can see it in front of our faces doesn't mean it's not happening. Global warming is one of the ways we are hurting the planet...