Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Tori. It's Tuesday, April 13, 2021, and we begin

with Teenage Climate Activist Greta Thunberry, as it's pronounced in her native Sweden, announcing

she will not attend the next international climate talks unless everyone on the invite

list can be vaccinated equally and participate safely. The annual event, which was canceled

last year, is scheduled to be held in Glasgow, Scotland in November. The 18-year-old tweeted,

''Inequality and Climate Injustice is already the heart of the climate crisis. If people can't

be vaccinated and travel to be represented equally, that's undemocratic and would worsen

the problem.'' At the moment, there is a big gap between who's been able to get a shot and who

hasn't. The New York Times reports three quarters of vaccines have gone to the world's richest

nations while only 0.1% of doses have been given in poor ones. Get ready for a growing selection

of fancy face masks. The Wall Street Journal reports there's a new way of coming on the market

with special sensors to potentially kill any virus before you breathe it in, and others are

offering facial coverings with high-tech options. A couple examples, the video game company Razer

is working on an N95 medical grade mask with a built-in microphone and amplifier plus

internal lights to illuminate your face. A musician Will I Am just unveiled his super mask

made with the help of the company Honeywell. It promises a secure fit, a strong air filtration

system plus, of course, earbuds with a noise cancellation feature. Not surprisingly, it's not

cheap with a selling price of $300. After years of inactivity, a volcano on the Caribbean

island of St. Vincent has exploded back in action. The La Souffrey air volcano erupted three times

on Friday. Fortunately, about 6,000 residents living nearby were warned to evacuate the day before

the eruption, which sent a huge plume of smoke about two miles up into the air and hot lava flowing

down the side. The Weather Network reports the activity was so powerful that the shock wave was

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