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Eastern US Expecting Billions of Cicadas

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Eastern US Expecting Billions of Cicadas

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World Leaders Discuss Climate on Earth Day

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Earth Day is a day set aside to remind people to protect our planet. It's held on April 22 every year. This Earth Day, US President Joe Biden is holding a virtual meeting on the climate with the leaders of 40 countries.

The two-day climate meeting, called the "Leaders Summit on Climate", was announced in late March. It's meant to encourage leaders from around the world to take stronger action on the climate. The move is also meant to show that America is once again willing to lead the world on climate action.

Climate Crisis
Since people first began burning coal to run factories, the world's temperature has gone up by 1.2 degrees Celsius (C)*. It sounds small, but it's enough to cause climate change - serious long-term changes in weather patterns that affect all life on earth.
The world is getting hotter, mainly because humans are burning "fossil fuels" like coal, oil, and natural gas to make energy. These fuels give off pollution called "greenhouse gases" or "carbon emissions", which make the climate emergency worse.
The effects of climate change can already be seen: melting ice in Antarctica and the Arctic, higher temperatures, heat waves, record dry periods, wildfires, record rains, and more strong hurricanes.
Scientists say the world must take strong action before 2030 to avoid the worst effects of the climate emergency.

In 2015, the world's countries signed the "Paris Agreement" to work together to slow global warming. The main goal of the Paris Agreement is to keep global heating below 1.5ºC.

The Paris Agreement set goals for countries to cut pollution and replace fossil fuels with energy that doesn't pollute, such as solar, wind, and water power. The countries agreed that in five years, they would set new, bolder goals for cutting emissions.

The Paris Agreement couldn't have happened without the US and China working together. But after Ex-President Donald Trump was elected, he pulled the US out of the Paris Agreement and made many decisions that made the climate crisis worse. As a result, many countries aren't sure they can trust the US.

Now Mr. Biden hopes to convince the world that they can count on America again.

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It's a good sign that many of the leaders of the world's largest countries have agreed to take part in Mr. Biden's climate meeting, even if they disagree with the US on many other subjects. China's Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin have both agreed to take part in the meeting.

Ahead of the meeting, Mr. Biden has been pushing leaders of other countries to agree to take stronger action to stop global warming.

Mr. Biden has said that the US will announce its own new goals at the meeting. Many people expect Mr. Biden to announce that the US will cut its emissions in half by 2030. That's almost double what it promised in the Paris Agreement.

Other countries and groups are also announcing bolder targets. Japan says it will cut emissions nearly in half by 2030. The EU has promised to lower its emissions by 55% by 2030. The UK says it will cut emissions by 78% by 2035.

So far, other large polluters like China, Russia, India, and Brazil haven't announced any specific new goals.

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One of the aims of the Leaders Summit is to prepare for an important climate meeting known as COP26. COP26 is a follow-up meeting to the Paris Agreement, planned for this November in Glasgow, Scotland. It was supposed to happen last year, but was delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic.

At COP26, countries will be expected to officially promise to make bold new cuts in emissions. As the climate crisis continues to get worse, the world will be watching all of the countries - and especially the US - to make sure they keep their promises.

Did You Know...?
Like they did last year, EarthDay.org is hosting a live digital Earth Day video event today, with many speakers and performers.
*Climate change temperatures are measured against the time when humans started burning coal for power. This article talks about climate change using Celsius (C). Talking about climate change in Celsius is more common and it makes the changes easier to see and remember.
If you want to think about the temperature changes in Fahrenheit( F), you can use these figures: 1.2°C = 2.2°F, 1.5°C = 2.7°F.

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World Leaders to Discuss Climate on Earth Day

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Earth Day is a day set aside to remind people to protect our planet. It's held on April 22 every year. This Earth Day, US President Joe Biden is holding a virtual meeting on the climate with the leaders of 40 countries.

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Young Poet to Read at Presidential Inauguration

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Young Poet to Read at Presidential Inauguration

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Philadelphia Will Go Dark to Protect Birds

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Philadelphia Will Go Dark to Protect Birds

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Starting April 1, many of the skyscrapers and other buildings in Philadelphia will be going dark at night. Though the move will cut down on energy use, the main goal of the effort is to help protect migrating birds.

Many kinds of birds migrate twice a year, raising a family in one place during the warm summer months before flying to a warmer spot to spend the cold winter months. In the northern half of the world, many birds fly north in the summer and south in the winter, looking for food and better conditions.

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These migrations are hard, and many birds die along the way. Some of these deaths are the result of human actions, such as hunting, or clearing huge areas of land that used to be used by migrating birds.

But one of the biggest threats to migrating birds comes from things humans have built. Experts say that as many as one billion birds may die every year in the US alone as a result of flying into buildings. Other tall structures, such as power lines and cell towers also lead to many bird deaths.

Now people in Philadelphia are working to remove at least one of the ways that migrating birds die: getting confused by the lights and glass of buildings along their migration paths.

Buildings are a special challenge for migrating birds. The windows can reflect things like the sky or tree branches, causing birds to fly directly into the glass.

Many birds migrate at night. Bright city lights add another layer of difficulty, confusing birds that might normally be guided by the stars.

Philadelphia got an sad reminder of that last October, when thousands of migrating birds were killed in one night. Over 1,000 birds were believed to have died in just one small area downtown. Scientists still aren't sure what made that night so bad, but it may have been connected to the low clouds over the city at the time.

Now the city is beginning a program called Lights Out Philly. Twice a year (from April 1 to May 31, and from August 15 to November 15), the lights on many of the city's buildings will be turned off or dimmed.

The program, run by Bird Safe Philly, is asking building owners and people who live in the area to turn off all outside lights that aren't needed between midnight and 6 in the morning. So far, many of the city's best-known and tallest buildings will be taking part. These include One and Two Liberty Place, the Comcast towers, and the BNY Mellon Center.

The Academy of Natural Sciences (ANS) at Drexel University helped organize the program with several other partners. Jason Weckstein, who works at ANS, points out that the problem isn't new. He says that ANS has a bird in its collection that was killed in 1896 when lights were first put on Philadelphia's City Hall tower.

Did You Know...?
The first Lights Out program was started in Toronto, Canada in 1993. Since then, dozens of other cities have joined in the effort, including New York, Chicago, Boston, and many others.

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Philadelphia Will Go Dark to Protect Birds

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An artist's rendition of an oviraptorosaur brooding over its eggs while its partner looks on (Credit: Zhao Chuang, PNSO)

Researchers worldwide are celebrating the discovery of the fossil of an adult oviraptorosaur brooding over a nest of eggs containing unhatched babies. The unprecedented discovery confirms scientists' suspicions that the two-legged bird-like dinosaurs were doting parents, which not only incubated their eggs, but also guarded them -at times putting their own lives at risk.

"Dinosaurs preserved on their nests are rare, and so are fossil embryos. This is the first time a non-avian dinosaur has been found, sitting on a nest of eggs that preserve embryos, in a single spectacular specimen," says study co-leader Shundong Bi, a paleontologist at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

The 70 million-year-old fossil is that of the Oviraptoridae subgroup, which thus far has only been found in Asia. It was discovered in South China's Nanxiong Formation, home to the world's largest collection of fossilized dinosaur eggs. Although the oviraptorosaur is missing its skull and a portion of its vertebrae, its forearms, hind legs, and tail are perfectly preserved.

Even more exciting, at least seven of the two dozen oval-shaped eggs in its nest contain fossilized bones or partial skeletons of the baby dinosaurs in curled positions. The adult's proximity to the eggs, and the presence of an almost fully-grown embryo in the nest, suggests that - similar to ts modern-day bird cousin - the dinosaur was incubating them before its untimely demise. The new evidence lays to rest the prior belief that oviraptorids guarded their nests from a distance like crocodiles.

The 70-million-year-old fossil of the oviraptorid sitting atop its nest of eggs (Credit: Shundong Bi, Indiana University of Pennsylvania)

"This kind of discovery-in essence, fossilized behavior-is the rarest of the rare in dinosaurs," explains team member Dr. Mathew Lamanna, a paleontologist at Carnegie Museum of Natural History. "Though a few adult oviraptorids have been found on nests of their eggs before, no embryos have ever been found inside those eggs. In the new specimen, the babies were almost ready to hatch, which tells us beyond a doubt that this oviraptorid had tended its nest for quite a long time. This dinosaur was a caring parent that ultimately gave its life while nurturing its young."

The researchers, who published their findings in the journal Science Direct on December 16, 2020, also found pebbles inside the dinosaur's stomach. They believe these were gastroliths, or "stomach stones," deliberately swallowed to help the ancient animals grind and digest their food. Though gastroliths have been previously found in other dinosaurs, this is the first evidence of them in an oviraptorid and may provide the researchers new insights into their diet.

Skeletal reconstruction of the adult oviraptorid showing the bones recently discovered in white (Credit: Andrew McAfee, Carnegie Museum of Natural History)

"It's extraordinary to think how much biological information is captured in just this single fossil. We're going to be learning from this specimen for many years to come," said study co-leader Xing Xu, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The ostrich-like bi-pedal oviraptorosaur was a member of the theropod family. The primarily carnivorous dinosaur roamed Earth during the Cretaceous Period - the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era, extending from 145 to 66 million years ago. Oviraptorosaur - Latin for "eggthief lizards" - refers to the dinosaur's initial discovery with what researchers believed were eggs stolen from a Protoceratops, an early horned dinosaur. While scientists later realized the eggs were the oviraptorosaur's own, the misleading name was never changed.

Resources: carnegiemnh.org, CNN.com

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The pool I belong to opens this week!

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Go to the beach or pool

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going to my dads playing games and go boling and going to play call of duty

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going to my dads playing games and go boling and going to play call of duty

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anthony

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Ima go to my mom house and sleep at my gramma house and play fortnite and go outside and play football

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Ima go to my mom house and sleep at my gramma house and play fortnite and go outside and play football

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Me and my friend king are Going to the waterpark and then after that

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Rahnir

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Total eclipse of a super blood moon is on Wednesday 

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Total eclipse of a super blood moon is on Wednesday 

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Nathan

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Me and my brother are going to play Roblox after zoom 

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Me and my brother are going to play Roblox after zoom 

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Nathan

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There will be a blood moon in the sky tonight.

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Are you going to stay open late so I can see it

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Are you going to stay open late so I can see it

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Made by Rion

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I am going to see my cousin at his house.