Unregulated sale of scorpions and spiders; Authoritarianism in India

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English - June 02, 2022 16:40 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MB - ★★★★ - 703 ratings
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The internet is crawling with black-market sales of exotic scorpions and spiders. More than 12,000 species of arachnids are bought and sold online, according to a new report in Communications Biology. Study author Alice Hughes joins us. And, Raksha Kumar brings us the stories of three generations of Kashmiris – whose lives illustrate the changing nature of this decades-long conflict between India and Pakistan.