The Ottery Tar Barrels Burning Festival
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 15, 2015
Every year on November 5th, for reasons lost in antiquity, the villagers of Ottery St Mary, Devon in England’s West Country race through the...
China’s Air Pollution And Scrapped Vehicles
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 15, 2015
China has been cracking down on high-emission vehicles in an effort to reduce pollution, leading to an increase in the number of recycling c...
Nauru: An Island Country Destroyed by Phosphate Mining
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 13, 2015
Nauru is a small island country, a speck in the Pacific Ocean, with an area of only 21-square-kilometers. It is the smallest state in the So...
Murphy's Haystacks
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 12, 2015
Murphy’s Haystacks are a group of ancient, wind-worn rock of pink granite located between Streaky Bay and Port Kenny on the Eyre Peninsula i...
The Volcano House of Newberry Springs
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 12, 2015
The Volcano House is a flying-saucer-shaped house that sits atop a 150-foot tall cinder cone of an extinct volcano in the western Mojave Des...
The Cooper-Young Trestle Gateway
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 11, 2015
The historic neighborhood of Copper-Young in the Midtown section of Memphis, in the United States, named for its placement at the intersecti...
Sorcerer’s Apprentice: A Dancing Power Pole in Oberhausen
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 10, 2015
On the banks of the Emscher River, near the wooded public garden Gehölzgarten Ripshorst, in the German city of Oberhausen, stands a peculiar...
The Painted Dunes of Lassen Volcanic National Park
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 10, 2015
The Painted Dunes are multicolored pumice fields formed by oxidation of volcanic ash as they fell out of volcanic eruptions that have sculpt...
Svinafellsjokull Glacier: The Real Life Location of Dr Mann’s Planet
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 10, 2015
Iceland, with its stunning landscape forged by breathtaking glaciers and angry volcanic forces, is lately turning out to be Hollywood’s favo...
Watermelon Snow
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 9, 2015
In the high alpine region, at altitudes of 10,000 to 12,000 feet, sometimes patches of pink or red appear on snow. The phenomenon is commonl...
