Every day, One Green Planet brings you today’s top news. For those who don’t have a lot of time to look through the news each day, this will be a great resource and an easy way to catch up!

Here you’ll find different categories of news and links to each article published! Enjoy!

1. If Everyone Biked As Much as the Dutch, We Could Cut Nearly 700 Million Metric Tons of Carbon Dioxide Every Year, New Study Finds

Though not as bad as animal agriculture, the transportation industry still makes up a huge part of the global emissions that are contributing to climate change. Two countries, Denmark and the Netherlands have been able to lower their emissions through a different mode of transportation: bikes.

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2. New Fossils Show Primate-Like Creatures Once Thrived in the Cold

Imagine the barren and frozen Canadian Arctic; now picture it with dense forests and a steamy, Savannah-like climate. That’s what the Arctic was like 52 million years ago, and it was home to two newly identified species of primate-like mammals. The discovery, reported in PLOS ONE, could shed light on how species might adapt to the current climate emergency caused by humans.

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3. Light Pollution is Causing Earlier and Longer Pollen Seasons Among Urban Plants

Light pollution is disrupting the natural seasonal rhythms of plants and trees, which is making the pollen season longer, which can cause worse allergies.

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4. Cat Creeps Up on New Sleeping Puppy to Cautiously Check Out the New Family Member

A video on TikTok went viral recently of a cat creeping up on a sleeping puppy sibling and sniffing him. The cat appears to be cautiously checking out the new pup and seems quite curious about him.

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5. Saving the Mountain Lions of California: A Race Against Time and Traffic

Have you ever heard of P-22, the legendary mountain lion who roamed the hills of Los Angeles for over a decade? Sadly, this beautiful big cat met his untimely demise after being hit by a vehicle and found injured in a backyard. This heart-wrenching story is not an isolated incident in California, as the state has seen a steady toll of mountain lions being killed on its highways. In the last eight years, there have been 535 reported cases of mountain lions killed on California roads – a rate of one to two each week. This has raised concerns that the rate of mountain lions being killed by cars may be surpassing their reproductive rate, leading to increasingly isolated and inbred populations.

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6. Pet Psychic Shares Proof That Deceased Animals Can Still See Their Humans

Having to see a pet cross over the rainbow bridge is one of the hardest things that animal lovers go through in life. Recently, TikTok user @nikkivasconez, a pet psychic, shared proof that deceased animals can still see their humans.

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7. Migrants Living in Toxic Dump in Cerro Chuño, Chile

Cerro Chuño, a neighborhood in Arica, Chile, has become a symbol of environmental pollution and danger. Once a bustling area with everything at its doorstep, it is now a shell of its former self, devastated by environmental contamination and criminal activity.

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