1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 In the eighth episode of the season, host Susan Mathews talks to Pranay Lal, a natural history writer and climate change advocate about the dearth of interest in publishing &amp;nbsp;books on natural history, the climate crises, the need for natural history museums, how the&amp;nbsp;story of climate is intertwined with all other histories, and more. Pranay Lal is a natural history&amp;nbsp;writer, public health expert, and climate change advocate. He is the author of two books on&amp;nbsp;natural history. Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent (2016), his debut&amp;nbsp;book, won the Tata Lit Fest Award and Delhi World Book Fair Award 2017. It was listed among Mint’s 50 most significant books about India since Independence. His second&amp;nbsp;book, Invisible Empire: The Natural History of Viruses (2021), also received multiple awards&amp;nbsp;and was named among the 20 Best Non-fiction Books of 2021 by GQ and won the Green Lit&amp;nbsp;Fest Award 2023. Both books have been translated into several languages. The Subverse https://www.darknlight.com/podcast/ <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/34189985/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/item/34189985