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Hi, guys. Ayshah here with news of why these cities are sinking on the | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
way, plus... Why people are worried this whale is | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
about to explode. You've got to keep watching Newsround. | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
First to a warning that more needs to be done to stop some of the | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
world's biggest cities from sinking into the sea. A new study found that | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
the ground in some places near the ocean is much lower than it was just | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
a few years ago. Here's Martin with more. | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
New Orleans, Bangkok, Jakarta... Home to millions of people and some | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
of the biggest and busiest cities in the world. Another thing they have | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
in common though, is the world. Another thing they have | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
all sinking. Scientists who carried out the study focused on five | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
coastal cities and say in some areas land is sinking ten times faster | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
than the sea level is rising. In North Jakarta, in Indonesia, the | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
city has sunk four metres in the last 35 years. It can happen | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
naturally but scientists say in this case one of the main reasons is | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
manmade. Some cities get their drinking water | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
from deep underground. They pump it to the surface but this has the | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
effect of making the land dropped down. Tokyo is the capital of Japan | :01:17. | :01:27. | |
and it went down two metres. Countries who want to follow Tokyo's | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
example, would need to find a new way of sourcing water - something | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
that's not always easy to do. So is this sinking something that can | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
affect all areas near the sea? In the UK, the situation is | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
different. In southern England and London, the land is going down by | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
two millimetres a year but this has more to do with the way the land is | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
relaxing. In Jakarta, they've built a sea wall | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
to try to protect them - which helps keep flood water out but that | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
doesn't stop the city sinking. Scientists say that measures like | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
these will need to move quickly if the cities are to avoid serious | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
problems in the coming decades. Next, if you ever argue with your | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
brother or sister over who does best at school then listen up. New | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
research suggests that kids born first in a family are more ambitious | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
than their younger siblings when it comes to studying and going on to | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
things like college and university. The study of 1,500 children | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
suggested it might be because parents spend more time with their | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
first kids than their later ones. Leah spoke to some of you about it. | :02:27. | :02:34. | |
You are the oldest, first-born. Do you think that you are smarter than | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
your sister? I think I am. I think it is a stereotype and I don't think | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
it is true. Who is better at studying? My sister. Everyone is | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
different and some people might like studying while other people might | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
want to do something else. I work harder than my sister. | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
And loads of you have been having your say on the Newsround website | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
today. Rebecca's told us, "I'm more ambitious than my brother. He's 13 | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
and I'm ten, yet I go for things more." And Sarah says, "I don't | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
think that it's true because I have a younger sister who is fourth born | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
and she's much smarter than her older siblings." Thanks for those | :03:19. | :03:20. | |
comments, guys. Now, you might want to stop eating | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
if you're in the middle of your tea, because this story is a little bit | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
"urgh". People in Canada are desperate for a dead whale, washed | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
up on their local beach to be moved, because they say it could explode at | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
any moment. Watch this. Washed up on Canada's Newfoundland | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
Island this blue whale is attracting a lot of attention. Most dead whales | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
sink to the bottom of the ocean and decompose naturally. But when this | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
doesn't happen, they can wash up on the shore and be very tricky to deal | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
with. At over 30 meters in length, it's the largest animal on earth, so | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
there's lots of stuff that has to decay. The sea creatures the whale | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
has eaten before it died will be breaking down inside it's stomach, | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
and as this happens, gasses - such as carbon dioxide - are released | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
which create a build up of pressure. This pressure inside builds up like | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
a balloon, and eventually, if there is no release, it will pop causing a | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
mini explosion, which is what locals are worried about. At over 60 tonnes | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
in weight it's a big task to try and move it, so politicians and local | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
people are still trying to figure out the best course of action before | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
it pops. Finally, to part of a space rocket | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
found in the middle of a rainforest. A fisherman in a remote part of the | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
Amazon in Brazil found debris the size of a car floating in a river. | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
It's from a rocket used to launch a UK satellite nearby last year. | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
Brazil has now asked the UK Space agency to come and pick it up. | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
You can see more pictures of that on the Newsround website now. We're | :04:54. | :04:54. | |
back at 6:50pm. | :04:55. | :04:58. |