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It's time for the latest Newsround with exploding whales and big cities | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
sinking on the way with me Ayshah. First, to a warning that some of the | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
world's biggest cities are at risk of sinking into the sea. A study | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
carried out by scientists found that the ground in coastal areas in | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
cities like Bangkok in Thailand, New Orleans in America and Jakarta in | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
Indonesia is much lower than it was in previous years. One of the main | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
reasons for the sinking is because many countries pump water from | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
underneath the ground. Scientists say getting water from alternative | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
sources would help stop the sinking. Some cities in the world get their | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
drinking water from deep underground. They pump it to the | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
surface that this has the effect of making the land on which those | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
cities are built drop-down. Tokyo, the capital of Japan, went down two | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
metres until it stopped pumping waters in this way. | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
Exploding whale news next as it looks like being a nervous night for | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
people in one town in Canada. That's because they say a dead whale, | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
washed up on their local beach, could pop at any point, but moving | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
it is trickier than you'd think. Washed up on Canada's Newfoundland | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
island, this whale is attracting a lot of attention. Most dead whales | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
sing to the bottom of the ocean and decompose naturally but when this | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
doesn't happen they can wash up on shore and be very tricky to deal | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
with. At over 30 metres in length, it is the largest animal on earth. | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
There is lots of stuff that has to decay. The creature the whale has | :01:39. | :01:47. | |
eaten will break down in its stomach and gases like carbon dioxide are | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
released which create a build-up of pressure. This pressure inside | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
builds up lake at the Louvre and eventually if that is no release, it | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
will pop causing a mini explosion. At over 60 tonnes in weight it is a | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
big task to try to move it so politicians and local people are | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
still scientific around the best course of action before it pops. | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
And finally, listen up if you ever argue with your brother or sister | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
about who's the best. New research suggests kids born first in a family | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
are more ambitious than their younger siblings when it comes to | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
studying and going on to college and university. The study of 1500 | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
children suggested parents give more attention to their first kids than | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
their later ones. Leah spoke to some of you about it. I think it is a | :02:30. | :02:39. | |
stereotype. Who is better at studying? You or your sister. My | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
sister. Everybody is different, some people might want to go to college | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
while some people will want to go and do something else. Here is what | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
you have been saying. Newsround's back bright and early | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
tomorrow morning. | :02:59. | :03:00. |