Why It’s the Perfect Time to Raise the Federal Minimum Wage
With a healthy economy, voters in support and businesses raising wages anyway, Congress should act now
Why seagrass meadows are the carbon capture solution we need | The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News
Seagrass can capture carbon 35 times faster than rainforests. It’s time we pay more attention to the vegetation growing beneath the waves.
Why There Is (Some) Hope for Wall Street
Some CEOs are getting the message that even though the economy is growing, they need to serve their communities, too.
Why Today’s Young People Think Differently About Guns
Teens and Millennials are aren’t trapped in age-old talking points and battles, and they’re seeing dramatically steeper declines in anti-social behaviors than adults.
Widely Used Pesticide Is a Buzzkill for Honeybees
Findings add fuel to the debate over whether a commonly used chemical damages insect populations
Wildlife comes out to play while humans stay locked away in cities amid coronavirus pandemic
As the coronavirus pandemic upends human society, it is also having some profound effects on the animal kingdom. While people around the world go into quarantines and lockdowns, big cats, wild goats and other creatures from rural areas are finding their way into cities in search of food or perhaps a bit of adventure.Photo:…
Will you catch the moon and Saturn before sunrise February 2?
Jupiter and Venus will be very bright and up in the east before dawn. Saturn is below them – much fainter – near the moon on the morning of February 2.
With Christie gone, felons in New Jersey could finally get their voting rights
It’s the state with the highest racial disparity in incarceration.
World Bank to end financial support for oil and gas extraction
Bank announces in Paris it ‘will no longer finance upstream oil and gas’ after 2019 in response to threat posed by climate change
World’s first underwater farm is growing fruits and veggies once again | The Optimist Daily
Dubbed Nemo’s Garden, the farm, which consists of six underwater greenhouses, has begun once again yielding produce after a yearlong pandemic.
