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Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Tori. Today is Friday, May 23rd, 2025, the start of the long Memorial Day weekend. And we begin with a group of Minnesota teens with muddy boots and big goals tackling climate anxiety. The Green Crew is a youth-led team fighting their eco-worryes by jumping into action, planting trees,

fixing up trails, and removing invasive species. It started a few years ago when then 13-year-old

Hannah Bari Sanzi decided to turn her climate stress into something useful. Now, about 50

high school students are running projects making a real difference and enlisting thousands of participants to help.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the planet, scientists in Antarctica have discovered that penguin poop, yes, poop, is helping fight climate change.

According to ABC News, chemical reactions between ammonia in the poop and sulfur gases from ocean creatures lead to cloud formation, which reduces earthly temperatures and the melting of sea ice.

Cereal might still be the go-to breakfast for kids across America, but a study says what's in the bowl

might be a big nutrition bummer. According to research published this week in JAMA Network Open,

many of the cereals hitting store shelves today have more fat, sugar, and salt than they did just a few

years ago. From 2010 to 2023, the fat content of newly introduced cereals

jumped nearly 34 percent. Sodium went up by 32 percent and sugar increased by almost 11 percent.

One of the studies authors also warns that some cereals may say they're healthy on the front,

but nutrition labels on the back tell a different story.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, about a third of U.S. kids start their day with cereal.

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