【推荐2】Become a Scholastic News Kid Reporter!

How to join the Scholastic News Kids Press Corps for the 2020~2021 school year?

The application process for the 2020~2021 Scholastic News Kids Press Corps is now OPEN!

In order to be considered, you must be between the ages of 10~14 (must be 10 years old by November 1, 2020) and complete an application, which includes writing a news story and an essay.       

Download the 2020~2021 Scholastic News Kids Press Corps Application here.

Send your complete entry to:

Scholastic News Kids Press Corps/Apply 557 Broadway

New York, NY 10012-3999

All applications Must be postmarked by September 25, 2020 NO LATE APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED!

Kid Reporters are chosen by Scholastic News Kids Press Corps editors, and the 2020~2021 Kid Reporter team will be announced in early November.

Have questions about the application? Email kidspress@scholastic.com.

About the Scholastic News Kids Press Corps:

Members of the Scholastic News Kids Press Corps cover news stories for scholastic.com/news and select scholastic classroom magazines. The program is open to all students aged 10~14 with a desire to be a journalist. The selection of Kid Reporters is based on writing ability, interviewing skills and attention to detail.

【推荐2】Leaf peeping, the practice of traveling to watch nature display the fall colors, is a beloved annual activity, especially in New England. Typically, by the end of September, leaves take on warmer colors throughout the U.S. But this year, many areas haven’t even shaken off the green shades of summer. In Maine, forest rangers reported less than 70% color change and modest leaf drop.

It’s commonly believed that trees, like people, must prepare for winter. When fall arrives, and day length and temperature drop, trees respond by ending green substance production and absorbing remaining nutrients, causing leaves to lose the original color. Greens give way to yellows, reds and oranges that make for dramatic autumn displays.

Warm fall temperatures can make the fall colors appear later. Worse, dry summers can cause leaves to miss the fall color turn altogether. Delay of the start of the fall colors, which has been moving later into the fall, could continue. “My observations in the last decade have had more years that were later than what we consider historical averages. It can be a trend as the planet warms,” said the expert Jim Salge.

It’s not just the plants that suffer. “Turning leaves offer an irresistible mass of color — which, by estimate, brings in as much as billions of dollars a year in tourism in New England,” said Andy Finton, a forest ecologist. That’s another good reason to focus on preserving forests. Leaf peeping can stay part of the area’s feature if forests are given enough protection. “If we can keep them unharmed, they’ll provide things we’ve depended on, as well as fall inspiration,” said Finton.

【推荐3】Within a few decades, global temperatures are expected to climb to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. And that’s going to be really bad for corals, according to the latest report out from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

So the recent IPCC report says that up to 1.5 we can expect 10 to 30 percent coral survivorship. And above that, it decreases sharply.

Andrea Grottoli is a distinguished professor at the Ohio State University. Amid the doom and gloom of the IPCC report, Grottoli has some rare good news. Corals may be more adaptable to future conditions than we thought.

Her team studied three species of coral from the island of Oahu, in Hawaii. They put them in tanks with either heat stress, more acidic water or both. And what really matters in this study is the one where both increases in temperature and ocean acidification, because that’s exactly what’s happening on reefs now.

Twenty-two months later, they assessed the winners and losers. They found that on average more than half the corals survived. Even after being punished with warmer, more acidic waters — the kind they’d face under two degrees of global warming, the corals survived. Two of the three species were actually physiologically performing normally. They were doing more than surviving. They were coping. They’d adapted. They were doing well.

The results appear in the journal Scientific Reports. Grottoli says the study provides hope. The world’s corals may be more resilient than we thought — especially since one of the Hawaiian species they studied is widespread around the planet.

But will this good news motivate world leaders to control warming? Well, corals may be able to wait just a little longer to find out.

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【推荐3】On Mother’s Day, surprising your mother with a delicious cake is a must. Before you order a cake, you need a Mother’s Day cake design.

Dessert(甜点) Chocolate Cake

Who in the world can say no to a cake that is chocolate inside? This cake design is unique—other than the chocolate, there are delicious and lovely desserts on top of it.

Price: $42, 6-inch/$58, 8-inch

Black Velvet Cake

Black is forever beautiful! And as mothers are a long preference for love and beauty, you can pick this Black Velvet Cake to surprise your mother. As beautiful as the cake looks outside, when you cut the cake, it is relaxing to see the red and black delicious layers(夹层)inside.

Price, $32, 6-inch/$42, 8-inch

Naked Rose Cake

We know you came across the thought of surprising your mom with a bunch(束)of flowers as gifts for.

Mother’s Day, and you should go with it. With the cake design that we bring here, you can take a floral surprise ahead. Three layers of baked batter, three layers of whipped cream, and the topping of real strawberries and real pink roses!

Price: $36, 6-inch/$48, 8-inch

Wafers and Chocolate Strawberries Cake

Does your mom love wafers? Is she a fan of chocolate? And is she also mad on strawberries? Breaking the usual round shape, here is a Mother’s Day cake design in a square, which is covered with breakable wafers on the sides. Also, there is white and black chocolate and fresh strawbemes on top of it

Price: $38,6-inch/$50,8-inch