Live view of Hekla volcano. Hekla is 1.491 meter high volcano, located in the highlands of Iceland. Scientists believe that Hekla is likely to erupt soon and if that happens – you will be able to watch it happen live. The webcam was installed in partnership between Iceland´s National Radio, Iceland´s Civil Protection Department and [...]
Webcams have been proliferating of late at the Observatorio Volcanológico de los Andes del Sur (OVDAS) in Chile: nine are now linked from the main page of the OVDAS website. The latest addition is a new webcam for Chaitén, giving a view of the caldera, with an image that updates every 10 seconds or so. [...]
This just in, Turrialba has its own webcam. Not much to see right now but grey, but better keep an eye on it.
Lost in the Yellowstone arglebargle is the fact that some volcanoes are actually erupting. The volcano has been showing signs of life after over 100 years of quiet. The activity has apparently prompted [...]
Like animals everywhere, Antarctic penguins are adjusting, or not, to changes in their habitat brought by warming temperatures. With extensive field research on their existing colonies, and a 45,000 year-old record contained in deposits of their bones and egg shells, we know more about how Antarctic penguins will adjust to rapid climate change than almost [...]
A PILOT trial of a webcam watching penguins at Edinburgh Zoo has been such a hit that it is to be made a permanent fixture. It was set up in June to capture the Gentoo penguins nesting and bringing up their young and has been attracting 9000 visitors a month so far. There was even [...]
Environmental enthusiasts should be able to observe infant loggerhead sea turtles hatching and emerging from their nest, via a live streaming “turtle webcam” installed on a private beach on Big Pine Key in the Lower Florida Keys.
Viewers can access the webcam, which offers daytime viewing of the loggerhead nest in natural light and infrared nighttime [...]
Lynn Rosen who discovered the baby bald eagles nest has found a playful baby panda bear at the San Diego Zoo. It is not the same wild show that the eaglets presented with Ma and Pa bring home flipping fish and their first flying adventures, but entertaining none the less. Giant panda Bai Yun gave [...]
SAN DIEGO — Prized San Diego Zoo panda mom Bai Yun gave birth Wednesday to her fifth cub after a 130-day pregnancy that zookeepers said ended with an apparently pleasant labor. The cub born to 17-year-old Bai Yun (White Cloud) became just the 14th panda in the United States. Shortly before the birth, the mother licked herself, [...]
Twenty-eight miles beyond San Francisco, a chain of rocky islands form a mostly undisturbed wildlife sanctuary that some biologists refer to as California’s Galapagos. And now bird-watchers and marine mammal enthusiasts have access to the area, thanks to a recently installed webcam.
The solar-powered camera is atop a lighthouse on Southeast Farallon Island, part of the [...]
The total solar eclipse on the 22nd of July 2009 will be the longest of the 21st century. Lasting over six and a half minutes at the maximum duration (in the same Saros as the long 1991 eclipse). Starting in India along the western shore near Surat the path of the shadow heads towards Butan [...]