Arctic Heroes #3 - Robert McClure Robert McClure and his crew were the first people to transit the North West Passage - by ship and sled.  They were also the first to circumnavigate the Americas…

Plastiki  is made out of – you guessed it – plastic. Plastiki, the plastic bottle version of Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki  , was carried from San Francisco to Sydney on a conveyor belt....and…

Goldsmiths of Paris, in May offered trees to Mary in the city of Eieffel tower as is written on an inscription kept in Notre Dame reminds me of Indian tradition , Japanese tradition role of…

Arctic Ice July - Update #4 Once again my focus is on Nares Strait.  This time I want to show how glaciers can be affected indirectly by sea ice. There are two major glaciers in the Nares Strait…

Roads of city centre in Barcelona or leading to it are having trees on both the sides. A feature that Maharaja of Jaipur laid down when he founded Jaipur. You can still see some trees on some roads…

During recent visit to France I encountered my old friend working on biofuels telling me" Jatropha is a means of keeping underdeveloped countries underdeveloped"That was contrary to all the ideas…

It great to see all the roads of Barcelona so green:  Its a natural way of green house gas mitigation and to reduce pollution. 

If you can withstand a two hour wait in the queue (on Sunday the 18th July) to purchase the ticket costing Euro 25 for the Palace and gardens there is no other place as beautiful as the garden of the…

It used to be filled with water.