Huge algae blooms discovered beneath Arctic ice
A NASA mission to study the tiny algae vital to the ocean’s food chain has turned up a massive amount of phytoplankton where scientists least expected it — under the Arctic ice.
Rep. Levin blasts GOP for ‘increasingly undisguised’ effort to sabotage job growth
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Rep. Sander Levin (D-MI) on Thursday blasted Republicans for failing to act on the transportation funding bill while touting the repeal of the medical device tax as a “jobs bill.”
House Dems propose $10 per hour minimum wage
A group of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives proposed this week a bill that would raise the nation’s minimum wage from $7.25 to $10 per hour.
Same sex marriage opponents in WA seek to overturn law
Opponents of Washington’s new same sex marriage law have submitted enough signatures to place a repeal of the law on the November ballot.
Virginia 13-year-old suspended after he ‘touched the flag’
The parents of a 13-year-old boy in Virginia Beach who was suspended for touching the American flag say that their son was unfairly treated because he is black.
Environmental collapse now a serious threat: scientists
Climate change, population growth and environmental destruction could cause a collapse of the ecosystem just a few generations from now.
