October 2017
Health
![Workers can use insecticide to try to stop outbreaks of the plague. [Photo via BBC Science Library]](https://currents4kids.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_teaser/public/images/article/_79189412_79189411.jpg?itok=ajGwDOIx "Workers can use insecticide to try to stop outbreaks of the plague. [Photo via BBC Science Library]")
Oct 27 2017
Outbreak!
Madagascar is fighting a deadly disease. Plague has already killed almost 100 people in the African nation since August.
Plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. It’s really a rodent disease, transmitted to humans in fleabites.
Plague killed 50 million people...
Technology
Oct 20 2017
Au Revoir to Gassing Up
Paris is tired of air pollution. The French city is solving the problem at the source—internal combustion engines. That’s the engine found in most cars and trucks.
Internal combustion engines burn gas or diesel fuel. But fossil fuels are dirty. The exhaust fumes...
Indigenous
Oct 13 2017
Listen to Your Elders
Last month, First Nation, Métis, and Inuit elders held a big event in Edmonton. It was the first-ever National Gathering of Elders.
Elders preserve an Indigenous community’s culture and traditions. Some have special skills and talents.
Elders can be storytellers....
Sports
Oct 06 2017
I Am Invictus
War can break a soldier, body and soul. Just ask Prince Harry.
The queen’s grandson, who was a captain in the British army, served two tours of duty in Afghanistan. He experienced the scars it left behind on his friends and colleagues. On him.
“The way I viewed service...