In true MacGyver fashion, an employee at the Rainbow Springs Nature Park in New Zealand
repaired a damaged kiwi bird egg with masking tape thus protecting the chick from dehydration. The newly hatched bird was appropriately named Fissure.
Photo of Fissure from Rainbow Springs Nature Park.
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Second fissure has opened up northwest of the original on Fimmvörðuháls, east of Eyjafjallajökull.
This is NOT towards Katla.
Geologists on site saw the fissure open as it happened. As of this evening it is still growing, with 7 centers of eruption.
Eyjafjallajökull erupted tonight.
Small so far, we'll see how it develops, first eruption in 187 years.
Your weekly dose of volcanism from the USGS/Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.