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Community Voices: Spring Karen sent us some spring from Pasadena at Descanso Gardens. Watch the leaves change live on our foliage cams in Massachusetts and send us your photos at spring to feedback@explore.org. Happy equinox. 

Community Voices: Spring

Karen sent us some spring from Pasadena at Descanso Gardens.

Watch the leaves change live on our foliage cams in Massachusetts and send us your photos at spring to feedback@explore.org. Happy equinox. 

Posted 2 months ago

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Community Voices: Sunsets This photo comes from Rita who says, “Sometimes sunrise is as good as sunsets in the Florida Keys.” The right is sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean and the left, sunset over the Gulf of Mexico.  Panning from LAX to Malibu, catch the sunsets on the Santa Monica and Lake Tahoe Live Cams. And tune into the Turtle Bay West Cam in Hawaii.  Share more peaceful moments of the golden hour with us. Email your sunset photos to feedback@explore.org.

Community Voices: Sunsets

This photo comes from Rita who says, “Sometimes sunrise is as good as sunsets in the Florida Keys.” The right is sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean and the left, sunset over the Gulf of Mexico. 

Panning from LAX to Malibu, catch the sunsets on the Santa Monica and Lake Tahoe Live Cams. And tune into the Turtle Bay West Cam in Hawaii. 

Share more peaceful moments of the golden hour with us. Email your sunset photos to feedback@explore.org.

Posted 3 months ago

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This month, summer fog may dampen Northern Californians seeking fun at the beach. This weather may hide the sun from outdoor enthusiasts, but it does provide ideal growing conditions for the tallest trees on Earth: the coast redwoods. When warm, moist air flows over the cold ocean water on our Northern coasts and a marine layer is formed. This marine layer helps create the foggy conditions that feed the coastal redwood forests with moisture throughout the summer when it rarely rains. Some of the fog-loving plants of the redwood forest include the coast redwood, Douglas fir, western sword fern, and redwood sorrel. Many of these plants absorb fog directly through their leaves! Animals of the redwood forest also thrive in the fog, like the Clouded salamander. This unique amphibian breathes through its skin and needs the humid air to survive. While the fog might seem gloomy, it’s actually an important life-giving source of water for the vibrant plants and animals in the redwood forests. Watch the Redwood River Web Cam to witness this seasonal occurrence live! Want to learn more? Check out these redwood research studies funded by Save the Redwoods League, a California non-profit that studies redwood forests and surrounding lands to understand how to best protect them. — Photo by Stephen Sillett, Institute for Redwood Ecology, HSU

This month, summer fog may dampen Northern Californians seeking fun at the beach. This weather may hide the sun from outdoor enthusiasts, but it does provide ideal growing conditions for the tallest trees on Earth: the coast redwoods.

When warm, moist air flows over the cold ocean water on our Northern coasts and a marine layer is formed. This marine layer helps create the foggy conditions that feed the coastal redwood forests with moisture throughout the summer when it rarely rains.

Some of the fog-loving plants of the redwood forest include the coast redwood, Douglas fir, western sword fern, and redwood sorrel. Many of these plants absorb fog directly through their leaves! Animals of the redwood forest also thrive in the fog, like the Clouded salamander. This unique amphibian breathes through its skin and needs the humid air to survive.

While the fog might seem gloomy, it’s actually an important life-giving source of water for the vibrant plants and animals in the redwood forests. Watch the Redwood River Web Cam to witness this seasonal occurrence live!

Want to learn more? Check out these redwood research studies funded by Save the Redwoods League, a California non-profit that studies redwood forests and surrounding lands to understand how to best protect them.

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Photo by Stephen Sillett, Institute for Redwood Ecology, HSU

Posted 11 months ago

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