
January 4, 2024
Season 39 Episode 14 | 15m 38sVideo has Closed Captions
Features include robotic innovations, recycled solar panels, puffins in Maine and more!
This episode of News Quiz features stories about robotic innovations, the Amazon River, mangrove trees, recycled solar panels, a possible new aquatic species, puffins in Maine, a hummingbird caretaker, a beaver comeback and more!
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January 4, 2024
Season 39 Episode 14 | 15m 38sVideo has Closed Captions
This episode of News Quiz features stories about robotic innovations, the Amazon River, mangrove trees, recycled solar panels, a possible new aquatic species, puffins in Maine, a hummingbird caretaker, a beaver comeback and more!
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>> Hi and welcome to KET's News Starks.
This week we are version of the Quiz!
This stories that aren't necessarily think you'd enjoy that could world.
Now, think geography as we get Question ... What is the southernmost Your first thought might be of think again.
This one gets shelves and extreme conditions and work there.
Of the seven continent?
We'll have the Humanoid robots and doggy annual World Robot Conference machines are becoming more human expressions like nodding.
Human-like skin and movements, and expressions are artificial intelligence.
already being used in tourist education.
Other 'companion' household chores, even mow the robots showcased are already perform surgeries or other accurately than doctors.
Some parts of the world are way of protecting land, rivers an indigenous -- or native -- homelands near the Amazon River people are working to create a be a living being - a person, PERSONHOOD status, they will be outsiders from taking their grounds or farmland.
The area within the Amazon Rainforest.
South American countries Venezuela.
The Amazon River through Brazil and into Peru.
In July, eight different met to discuss options to the indigenous people who still land and rivers 'personhood' in New Zealand, Chile and other Time now for the first part of two are about the world robot Questions 3 and 4 are working Back to the new What was once a now a forest of mangroves.
largest landfills in Latin about 80 million tons of trash.
down the landfill a decade ago it into green space, covered by or trees that grow in coastal adaptations to take in extra step in depolluting the area.
scientists say animals like are also starting to return.
Solar panels are supposed to be but what happens when they end Arizona is finding ways to Discarded panels are being Recycle Solar, the largest America.
Some panels with minor again as a more affordable solar panels are too old, or valuable materials inside -- and silver -- can be harvested products.
It's estimated that total some 78 million tons Scientists may have discovered the ocean.
The scientists were the Gulf of Alaska when they organism.
The Gulf of Alaska is runs along the curve of the where natural blue water merges the side of Glacier Bay.
The new species is described as Now they are trying to figure known species or a brand-new Think about those stories as we today's Quiz.
Question five is a makeover.
Question six is giving new And Question 7 is about the new There's good news for a bird found off the coast of Maine.
Northeastern U.S.
It borders Atlantic Ocean.
Augusta is the are Atlantic puffins.
They are sea, or sea parrots, because of way they waddle when they walk.
puffins declined drastically fish they feed on from the however, those fish numbers the number of puffins.
To our south, a woman in Mexico home into a medical clinic for a cancer survivor.
After she was recruited to help care eye injury.
Catia named that creature fit into a Gucci back to health.
With Gucci as studied hummingbirds and is now numerous flitting birds in her And in the United Kingdom, it's special treatment.
These specialists have been extinct for centuries.
They were once meat and also because some Now they are being reintroduced special areas that have been Environmentalists are excited their dams and create new other wildlife like dragonflies And now here's the final part good news in the northeast.
Question 9 is trying to flit And Question 10 is all about Now take a break from the REPORT ... from Indonesia where more about whale sharks.
or island country - that sits Oceans.
It is part of Asia and coast of that continent.
Indonesia.
Scientists and whale sharks is declining.
thousand of them swimming in are working to track their to keep them from going massive creatures - but they unusable, teeth, so they don't Instead, they eat aquatic plant have dots on their skin that fingerprints.
The researchers fish under the waters near one They tag them with a tiny to monitor where the shark goes about it.
Now from Indonesia, we are answer to today's Challenge ANTARCTICA, you are correct!
continent.
This is the home of ice-covered land mass.
see iceberg-lined passageways penguins!
You may not know that the planet cool by reflecting the The snow- and ice-covered areas light outward.
But global and ice -- melting it away to underneath.
This decreases its It's an area of the world that closely, even without living And here are the rest of The answer to question 1 is A.
The robots bear a striking The answer to question 2 is ... C. BOTH human actions and being used.
The answer to question 3 is ... A. PERSONHOOD status is what's Amazon and other areas.
The answer to question 4 is ... B.
Areas within the AMAZON push.
The answer to question 5 is ... Also B.
TREES or mangroves are landfill.
The answer to question 6 is ... C. SOLAR PANELS are being The answer to question 7 is ... B.
The GULF OF ALASKA is where The answer to question 8 is ... B.
The Atlantic PUFFINS are The answer to question 9 is ... C. HUMMINGBIRDS are Catia's And the answer to question 10 BEAVERS are being reintroduced Kingdom.
And finally today Hang ten, >> About 50 rad dogs showed off Dog Beach in Southern "Surf-a-thon" raising money for The 'Best in Surf' winners were 2nd place, and Guinness in 3rd >> That's it for us!
See you Cowabunga, dudes!

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