The Sundial Cannon of Åtvidaberg
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 7, 2017
In the not-too-distant past, before the invention of modern timekeeping devices, noontime —the moment when the sun is at the highest positio...
Santa Cruz Del Islote: A Crowded Utopia
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 6, 2017
Santa Cruz del Islote is a tiny coral island, and one of the smallest, in the archipelago of San Bernardo off the coast of Colombia. It is o...
Alert: The Most Northern Settlement in The World
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 3, 2017
Located just over eight hundred kilometers away from the North Pole, the community of Alert, on the northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island, in...
A Spotlight Of Snow
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 3, 2017
The other day, NASA’s Earth Observatory posted some interesting pictures about localized snow in the Netherlands. Several fields in Heensch...
Glass Beach on Ussuri Bay
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 2, 2017
Just a 30-minute-drive away from the city of Vladivostok, Russia, lies a stunning bay surrounded by impressive cliffs. Not very long ago, th...
The Sunken Lanes of Europe
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 2, 2017
Appearing as trenches dredged through the earth or tunnels cleared through forests, these ancient pathways called holloways or sunken lanes ...
Checkerboard Forest
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 1, 2017
If you pull up Google Maps and look at the forested areas of Western United States, you’ll notice strange checkerboard patterns, like the on...
The Oil Rig Graveyard of Cromarty Firth
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 31, 2017
In a remote sheltered harbor guarded by two precipitous headlands, in the North of Scotland, dozens of oil rigs are sitting idle, some for m...
The Lost Island of Ferdinandea
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 31, 2017
Once upon a time, in the waters not far off the coast of Sicily, there was an island called Ferdinandea. It was located right where the Medi...
Batagaika Crater, Siberia
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 30, 2017
In the heart of Siberia’s boreal forest, a massive crater the locals call the “gateway to the underworld” has been growing for the last fift...
