these are teens with a mission. they re working to save rainforests in indonesia and malaysia and the endangered animals that live there. we really need to take a big part in helping our environment. this became their battleground. they fought to remove some snacks from their school vending machine. but it wasn t easy. the biggest challenge i faced was other students and teachers liking the products in the vending machines that we were taking out and they didn t want them removed. those products all had one particular ingredient in common. the entire rainforest ecosystem is endangered because of palm oil. palm oil is used to produce many things makeup, biodiesel fuel for cars, and, yes, even some of our favorite snacks. in fact, the world wildlife fund says 50% of the packaged foods found in grocery stores are made with palm oil. the way they make harvest palm oil is, they cut down an area of rainforest they actually burn it and then they use that area
tigers. tyler reports on how some students are fighting back. these are teens with a mission. they re working to save rainforests in indonesia and malaysia and the endangered animals that live there. we really need to take a big part in helping our environment. this became their battleground. they fought to remove some snacks from their school vending machine. but it wasn t easy. the biggest challenge i faced was other students and teachers liking the products in the vending machines that we were taking out and they didn t want them removed. those products all had one particular ingredient in common. the entire rainforest ecosystem is endangered because of palm oil. palm oil is used to produce many things makeup, biodiesel fuel for cars, and, yes, even some of our favorite snacks. in fact, the world wildlife fund says 50% of the packaged foods found in grocery stores are made with palm oil. the way they make harvest palm oil is, they cut down an area of ra
i m mwanzaa. and i m siena. here s our top story for this week. foods you probably eat every day may be threatening the lives of animals like orangutans and tigers. tyler reports on how some students are fighting back. these are teens with a mission. they re working to save rainforests in indonesia and malaysia and the endangered animals that live there. we really need to take a big part in helping our environment. this became their battleground. they fought to remove some snacks from their school vending machine. but it wasn t easy. the biggest challenge i faced was other students and teachers liking the products in the vending machines that we were taking out and they didn t want them removed. those products all had one particular ingredient in common. the entire rainforest ecosystem is endangered because of palm oil. palm oil is used to produce many things makeup, biodiesel fuel for cars, and, yes, even some of our favorite snacks. in fact, the world wi
tsunami that hit two weeks ago. the investigation found geological data going back 3000 years that it should have been enough to prepare for such a catastrophic disaster. two weeks later, radiation continues to leak from the troubled plant. the latest from nbc. it was the second apology in as many days. how the most recent example of late or flat out erroneous information coming from the owners of japan s stricken nuclear power plant. tokyo electric power says that it needs to revise its announcement. they had announced that radiation levels in the pool was 10 million times the normal level. workers were evacuated in news reports will full of fears that the crisis had only deepened. but for all the alarm bells, it turns out pepco says it was wrong. the radiation level not only in that pool but three other polls was high but not the astronomical level first described. pepco apologized for what it called an inconvenience. but it was an inconvenience no one here needed. those