Berezniki: The Russian City Swallowed By Sinkholes
Kaushik Patowary
May 3, 2019
The city of Berezniki, in Russia’s Ural mountains, is slowly sinking into the earth. The city of more than 150,000 individuals was built dir...
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RMS Tayleur: The Other Titanic
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 31, 2019
The sinking of the Titanic is one of the best remembered maritime disasters in history. A grand luxury ship touted as the safest vessel aflo...
China’s Misguided War Against Sparrows
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 8, 2019
These panel of images from the late 1950s China, depicting young boys hunting sparrows for sport, were taken from a poster aimed at school ...
The Photographers Who Braved Mount St. Helens
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 3, 2019
When Mount St. Helens erupted in the morning of May 18, 1980, a freelance photographer named Robert Landsberg was within four miles of the s...
Nova Scotia’s Christmas Gift to Boston
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 18, 2018
For nearly half a century, the Canadian province of Nova Scotia has been sending a gift to the people of Boston in the form of a Christmas t...
Demon Core: How The Third Nuclear Bomb Destined For Japan Killed a Bunch of American Scientists
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 14, 2018
President Harry S. Truman knew that one bomb would not be enough to force Japan to surrender, so he ordered two. What many don’t know is tha...
The Tay Bridge Disaster And The World’s Worst Poem
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 14, 2018
On the night of 28 December 1879, a violent storm lashed across Scotland collapsing an iron bridge that straddled the Firth of Tay and plung...
Dhanushkodi: The Ghost Town Ravaged By Cyclone
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 9, 2018
In the middle of Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka is a small elongated island called Pamban, and it's connected to the Indian pen...
The Dust Bowl of The 1930s
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 26, 2017
The 1930s were some of the driest years in American history. Eight long years of drought, preceded by inappropriate cultivation technique, a...
The Giddy House, Port Royal, Jamaica
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 17, 2017
On the grounds of Fort Charles in the small town of Port Royal, Jamaica, stands a lopsided building called “the Giddy House”. Half buried in...
Chaiten: The Town Buried By A Volcano
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 7, 2017
Early in the morning of May 2, 2008, a volcano located about 10 km to the north of the town of Chaitén, near the Gulf of Corcovado in southe...
The Chemical Valley of Sarnia
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 27, 2017
These tall chimneys billowing thick, toxic smoke stand on the banks of the Saint Clair River, on the outskirts of the Canadian city of Sarni...
Ecce Homo: The Botched Painting That Saved a Town
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 20, 2017
Eighty-three year old amateur artist Cecilia Giménez had nothing but good intentions when she turned her attention towards a deteriorating f...
The Plague Village Of Eyam And Its Great Sacrifice
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 12, 2016
The Great Plague of London affected many places across England, but one small village in Derbyshire called Eyam, will always be remembered f...
The Toxic White Beaches of Rosignano Solvay
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 5, 2016
The dazzling white sand of “Spiagge Bianche”, or “white beaches”, in the town of Rosignano Solvay, in southern Tuscany, has been luring tour...
This Rocky Wall Was Created By The New Zealand Earthquake
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 1, 2016
The 7.8 magnitude earthquake that stuck the South Island of New Zealand on November 14, 2016, have changed the geography of the region, part...
The Sunken City of Baiae
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 20, 2016
The ancient Roman city of Baiae, on the northwest shore of the Gulf of Naples, was once a popular coastal resort famous for its idyllic loca...
The Lost Villages of St. Lawrence
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 1, 2016
In 1954, the United States and Canada jointly embarked on a massive engineering project that involved the creation of a 600-km-long navigabl...
The Fauld Explosion Crater at Hanbury
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 12, 2016
On the outskirts of the small village of Hanbury, in Staffordshire, England, a few minutes walk from The Cock Inn, is a large crater created...
Taipei’s Typhoon-Bent Mailboxes
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 1, 2016
In August 2015, a powerful typhoon named Soudelor slammed into the east coast of Taiwan bringing torrential rain and fierce wind in excess o...
