{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"History, Naturally: Earth, Climate and Human Cycles","description":"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\u2019s 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. ","author_name":"The Subverse","author_url":"https:\/\/www.darknlight.com\/podcast\/","html":"<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>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/34189985"}