North America Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Wed, 17 Dec 2014 23:19:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg North America Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 Climate Change, Not Hunting, Killed Off Mastodons https://teachingkidsnews.com/2014/12/17/climate-change-not-hunting-killed-off-mastodons/ Thu, 18 Dec 2014 01:18:52 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=14387 Mastodons in Canada’s north were probably wiped out by the start of a new Ice Age, and not by human hunters, according to a new scientific study.
Early humans have commonly been blamed for hunting mastodons to extinction in North America.

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]]> Factory Conditions, Wages Improving In Bangladesh https://teachingkidsnews.com/2013/05/14/1-factory-conditions-wages-improving-in-bangladesh/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2013/05/14/1-factory-conditions-wages-improving-in-bangladesh/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 04:01:02 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=10385 Things appear to be changing for the better for people who work in clothing factories in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh is a small country in south-east Asia.

About four million people there work in clothing factories, cutting and sewing clothes. A lot of the clothing they make is sold in stores in North America.

Most of the factory workers in Bangladesh earn much less than workers who do similar jobs in North America. Often they work long hours, and many of them work in unsafe conditions.

Recently there was an accident involving workers in a clothing factory near Bangladesh’s capital city, Dhaka. Many workers were injured or killed.

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