About us:

Arati Kumar-Rao, photojournalist and author of Marginlands: Instagram

Prem Panicker, journalist and editor: X and Substack

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On why we are doing this podcast

Our email: marginlands@gmail.com

Headlines:

05:06: WWF helps facilitate trade in polar bear fur, investigation reveals

06:37: Ammonia level rises in Yamuna yet again, may hit water supply and related: Why Yamuna in Delhi has high ammonia levels

08:28: Is the Ganga self-cleaning? Here's what science says

09:28: Food-borne bugs and their links with climate change in focus

10:34: The Invisible Empire by Pranay Lal, a wonderfully evocative deep dive into the world of viruses

11:45: Fishing cat study exposes heavy metal presence in Sunderbans

Paul Salopek segment:

20:00: Out of Eden Walk home page

20:54: Paul Salopek's India walking partners share their memories

24:02: Archive of Paul Salopek's articles for The Chicago Tribune from when he was a foreign correspondent and, related, Paul Salopek's Pulitzer-winning work for Chicago Tribune, on the Human Genome Diversity Project, also for the Chicago Tribune

26:42: The war is bitter and nasty -- a 2009 Paul Salopek story, for The Atlantic, on the chaos in Somalia

28:42: A Paul Salopek story on an isolated archeological site in South Korea

28:50: Paul Salopek on the frog ecology in South Korea and his encounter with a frog whisperer

29:50: Related, Paul Salopek

30:12: Don Belt recaps the three workshops, in Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata, led by Paul Salopek, and rounds up links to ...

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