The vultures of India showed us how we're all interconnected after farm

chemical started to kill them off in the 1990s. It's kind of like if all the

garbage guys go on strike that's what happened. Coming up today on Travel with Rick Steve's, Mira Subramanian reveals how India's natural world is in a crisis and what we're all learning from it.

And in the Ukraine Holly Morris met a group of grandmothers who insisted on moving back to their homes near the site of the world's worst nuclear accident.

They lived through Stalin, they lived through the Nazis, and when Chernobyl happened, you know, they were unwilling to flee in the face of an enemy that was invisible.

And Don Anahide-McCin tells us what she discovered as she followed the journey her grandfather took when he narrowly escaped the Armenian genocide.

It was one of the most incredible moments of my life to find this clan and to be able to thank

them for saving my grandfather's life.

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It's the darndest thing. The radioactive landscape around the infamous Chernobyl

nuclear power plant in the Ukraine is home again to a small sisterhood of

very determined grandmothers.

Coming up today on travel with Rick Steeves,

Holly Morris introduces us to what she calls

the Babushkas of Chernobyl,

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