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Science Brief: World’s First Underwater Youth Climate Protest

Zahra Latheef, age 11 In early March, Shaama Sandooyea took a deep breath and plunged into the western Indian Ocean in the first-ever underwater youth climate protest. Holding a “Youth Strike for Climate” placard right above the world’s largest seagrass meadow, the 24-year-old Mauritian activist hoped to raise awareness about the importance of preserving seagrass. …

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Science Brief: Florida Declares State of Emergency over Toxic Reservoir Leak

By Jessie Mitnick, age 13 Over Easter weekend, residents of Manatee, Florida, were evacuated from their homes due to leaks from a nearby reservoir. The reservoir contained water contaminated with phosphogypsum—a toxic fertilizer waste product—from a former phosphate mine nearby. The leak caused an “imminent hazard” that posed “an immediate and substantial danger to human …

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News Brief: Hate Crimes Still Plaguing Asian American Communities

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Jessie Mitnick, age 13 On March 16, 2021, a devastating shooting took place in Atlanta. The attack left eight people dead, six of them women of Asian descent. Since the onset of the pandemic, there has been a sharp rise in anti-Asian attacks, largely fueled by former President Trump’s rhetoric, labeling the coronavirus as the …

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News Brief: Saudi Arabian Women’s Rights Activist Loujain al-Hathloul Released from Prison

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By Maliyah Ledesma, age 9 Loujain al-Hathloul, a 31-year-old women’s rights activist in Saudi Arabia, was released from prison in February after being accused of trying to change the political system. In 2018, when al-Hathloul was arrested, women were not allowed to drive in her country. Al-Hathoul had posted a video that went viral of …

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Class of COVID-19: The Pandemic of Missing Students

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By Khadija Hasan, age 12 Thousands of students have been missing from school in the United States, attending neither in-person nor online classes, according to ABC News. Students are facing countless issues with their virtual classrooms. Many have been completely absent, while others are falling months behind in their schoolwork. These issues have disproportionately affected …

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Hotels for the Unhoused

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By Zahra Latheef, age 11 The Austin City Council voted in January to buy rundown hotels to house the Texas city’s unhoused population. Many people were unhoused in Austin even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. The vote to purchase the first hotel was unanimously supported by the City Council. On Feb. 4, the council, in …

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The Insurrection: A Turning Point for the U.S.?

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By Raya ElHajjar, age 13 and IndyKids staff The morning of Jan. 6 began with crowds of Trump supporters flooding Washington, D.C., in anticipation of the then-president’s speech. During the rally, Trump urged his followers to “fight like h***” against what he called a stolen election. At 1:30 p.m., thousands of protesters began to march …

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“No Farmers, No Food, No Future”: Why Are India’s Farmers Protesting?

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By Hudson Mu, age 14 Hundreds of thousands of Indian farmers have been encamped near New Delhi, India, since November 2020 to protest three new farming bills passed in September. The farmers have created a fully functioning community, some setting up schools and libraries and providing food for their comrades. Most of the farmers are …

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