Karen Kaplan wrote about koalas and daylight saving’s time:

• In Queensland, Australia, the population of Koalas has fallen by 80% in the past two decades.
• Part of the reason is commuters that drive around the time it becomes dark – which also happens to be when nocturnal koala bears are most active and likely to be hit.
• Assuming that people’s commuting hours didn’t change, playing around with the clocks through daylight’s savings time would mean that people would return from the office while it was light out.
• Researchers estimated that this would reduce koala deaths by 8% on weekdays, and as much as 11% on weekends.

Read about the study on Los Angeles Times.

Via: Marginal Revolution