Good morning and welcome to Kid News, I'm Kim.

Today is Wednesday, September 1, 2021, and we begin with one country lowering the boom

on screen time.

Effective today, China says it's banning kids from gaming during the week, and over the

weekend, we'll only let them play for three hours total.

And it's not just any three hours.

The only acceptable time for those under 18 to power up is reportedly between 8 and 9

p.m. on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings.

Beijing says the intention of the crackdown is to unhook kids from their screen addictions.

How will it be enforced?

According to Forbes, gaming companies operating inside that country will have to track user

accounts and kick people off the platform once their 60 minutes is up.

China isn't new to these kind of restrictions.

For this three hour limit, it had capped kids usage at 10.5 hours per week.

Mother Nature is full of surprises.

Danish researchers recently stumbled upon what is quite possibly our planet's northernmost

island.

It's in the Arctic waters off Greenland and measures only 100 feet wide by 200 feet long.

The scientists who found it were on an expedition collecting samples from what they thought

was Udaq, a known island and until now the northernmost landmass, when the team spotted

something fishy about their coordinates.

Turns out they weren't on Udaq at all, but a half mile north of it.

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