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"Queen conch snails are in danger. So conservationists made them a hatchery on wheels"
#Snails #Animals #Conservation

Queen conch snails are in danger. So conservationists made them a hatchery on wheels
In a bid to slow the species’ decline by helping more conch reach reproductive age, scientists are deploying an innovative set of solar-powered mobile hatcheries to shelter them through their vulnerable early life stages.

"100 species on the brink get a $200m conservation lifeline"
#Conservation #Animals

100 species on the brink get a $200m conservation lifeline
Recovery projects for 100 critically endangered and extinct-in-the-wild species across the world are set to receive new funding under a conservation initiative announced Aug. 4. Re:wild and the Bezos Earth Fund, both U.S.-based environmental organizations, created the Phoenix Species Project and committed $100 million each, for a total of $200 million, to the project. The […]

"Conserving just 35% of the nation's waterways could sustain freshwater biodiversity"
#Biodiversity #Conservation

Conserving just 35% of the nation's waterways could sustain freshwater biodiversity
By evaluating the health of waterways across the U.S., researchers have identified a network encompassing about one-third of rivers and streams that, if conserved and restored, could sustain the nation's freshwater biodiversity in the face of habitat degradation and climate change. Mark Anderson of The Nature Conservancy, U.S., led the new study, published Sept. 16, 2026, in the journal PLOS One.

"This giant snail is the size of a croissant. Conservationists are banding together to save it from extinction"
#Snail #Animals #Conservation

A croissant-sized snail is at the center of an urgent conservation effort
The Obô Giant Snail is just one of many vulnerable species worth protecting in the “Galapagos of Africa.”

i don't know who at BC Hydro* is in charge of their Web UX in their user account website, but man they have had this consumption data in one form or another for a long time and now that they have brought in the option for time-of-day based billing, they've improved the graphing even more!
It easily and simply shows, on a daily basis, what rate I am paying at what time and how much.
Beautiful!!
I can also add in the average temperature over that time, and also compare total daily consumption between this year and last. Tier 1 applies to the first 644kWh used of the billing month. Last month the Tier 1 applied to exactly half my consumption.
On my rate schedule (in CAD) the off-peak prices are:
Tier 1: 11.87 cents/kWh
Tier 2: 14.08 cents/kWh
On peak surcharge: 5 cents/kWh
Overnight discount: -5 cents/kWh
As an example, last month I was charged $10.40 for on-peak usage but got a discount of $25.90 for off peak time. After all is said and done, my overall average power cost for the month was 12.67 cents/kWh. The majority of that overnight usage is:
EV charging.
Overnight dishwasher/laundry/dryer/hot water use.
Pond pumps.
*the Crown Corporation that generates and delivers most of the electricity in British Columbia Canada)
#electricity #BCHydro #BCPoli #power #conservation #demanduse