And it’s delicious when added to the cooking liquid for basmatirice, as is sometimes done in Northern India;to my taste, one-half teaspoon or so per cup of dry rice is about right.

Besides filming videos, Dmitry also enjoys working with farmers in the fields, doing activities such as planting vegetables and feeding chickens.

No one quite knows why glaciers and ice shelves are melting so fast, or how a meltwater lake on the Greenland ice sheet covering six square kilometres could drain away in 24 hours, as it did in 2006.