Blagoveschensk is a small Russian city on the border of China and home to the only ice bathing bath house on the Russian/Chinese border. Meaning “the city of good news,” Blagoveschensk has around a quarter of...
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Berndnaut Smilde is a Dutch photographer who makes miniature clouds and then takes photos of them as they hang, jauntily in the mid-air. It’s not just dry ice though, Mr Smilde actually uses...
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NASA’s International Space Station has brought us earthlings some of the most awesome photographs of our planet ever taken. Chris Hadley pinged a myriad of wonders back to earth during his stay in...
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The following footage comes from the unfortunate voyage of one of a P&O Pacific Sun Cruise back in September 2008. The cruise ship encountered some wild weather about 400 miles off the coast of...
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Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (1817-1900) was a Russian Romantic painter. He was predominantly renowned for his majorly impressive seascapes. Born into an Armenian family, he lived in Crimea for the majority of his life. Aivazovsky was...
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I used to think that balloons were harmless harbingers of fun, but it turns out that en masse they can be pretty dangerous. Balloonfest ’86 shows us just how wrong things can go when balloons...
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You don’t get to see roll clouds all that often from my rainy little isle, or anywhere else for that matter, so I’m happy to live vicariously for now. Videos will have to do. The...
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The debate about whether our little blue planet is heating up and, if so, whether it is our fault, has been roaring on for decades. Although I’m already convinced by the evidence, a lot of people...
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China has a bit of a problem with pollution. Don’t we all. But China’s is worse than most. Beijing has recorded air pollution readings of over 20 times the limit considered healthy by the...
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This is the second installment of impressive weather records. Last time I covered temperature and this time it is the turn of our old foe: rain. I hate rain. It’s my least favourite...
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