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Hawaiian Airlines is giving free non-toxic sunscreen to all its passengers. The coral reefs around Hawaii are damaged by chemicals that are common in most sunscreens. The airline is also showing a video called “Reefs at Risk,” to encourage the thousands of tourists that fly with them to help preserve the reefs. Raw Elements sunscreen is good for people too!
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After Hurricane Irma hit Florida last year, 18 year-old Theo Queenee noticed hundreds of mangrove seedlings in the debris. Mangrove trees are essential to protecting coastlines from erosion, and provide a habitat for marine life. He collected 524 tiny trees and built a greenhouse on his roof. 7 months later, he’s replanted a mangrove forest in a Miami mud flat!
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Today is National Scrabble Day! Play Scrabble today, and hope you get letters that spell “QUIZZIFY” on the triple word scores, for the ultimate 419 points! And if you’re losing to the person who just scored that word, and you accidentally flip the board over, you lucked out. It’s also National Blame Someone Else Day!
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A fun-loving dog was trying his best to get a stranger to play fetch with him; too bad it was actually a statue! Adam Shore’s border collie, Hurley, kept dropping his ball at the foot of a life-sized metal man on the beach in Liverpool, England. Adam recorded it, and Hurley is now a YouTube sensation!
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Scientists are working on a vaccine that could one day turn off peanut allergies! The vaccine has been successful with mice, after only 3 doses. The next step will be to perform clinical trials with people, to see if they get the same results. Peanut allergies are common and dangerous, so this could be an amazing solution!
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Proxima b is the closest extra-solar planet to our solar system. It also orbits Proxima Centauri in the habitable, or “Goldilocks” zone, where the planet is just the right distance from its star to allow water to exist. Unfortunately, scientists studying the planet just measured a solar superflare that would have fried anything living on it!
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Have you ever wanted a purse that looks like an apple pie, or a bow tie that looks like a hot dog? I’ll bet you do now! Rommy de Bommy makes one-of-a-kind accessories that look just like food, from donut brooches to tortilla chip necklaces. She sells them online on Etsy. I think I want them all!
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Today you get an excuse to be a little crazy; it’s Walk On Your Wild Side Day! Here’s something wild to try: a grilled cheese and licorice sandwich! Yuck. Maybe just have them separately, because it’s National Grilled Cheese Day and National Licorice Day! Sounds like the perfect dinner to me.
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Two baby eagles that hatched in March need names! The parents, Liberty and Justice, have raised two eaglets almost every year since 2005, when they built their nest in Washington, D.C. You can cast your vote to name this year’s eaglets and watch them grow on Earth Conservation Corps’ eagle cam online, at eaglecam.org.
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In March, Portugal generated enough renewable energy through wind and hydro power to supply the entire country with power for a month! By converting wind and water to electricity, Portugal saved the Earth’s atmosphere from 1.8 million tons of carbon dioxide. I hope more countries will follow their lead. Thank you, Portugal, for giving the planet cleaner air!
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