Redlining's Ripple Effects Go Beyond Humans

Published: Jan. 9, 2023, 5:15 a.m.

b'When Dr. Chlo\\xe9 Schmidt was a PhD student in Winnepeg, Canada, she was studying wildlife in urban areas. She and her advisor Dr. Colin Garroway came across a 2020 paper that posed a hypothesis: If the echos of systemic racism affect the human residents of neighborhoods and cities, then it should affect the wildlife as well. Short Wave Scientist in Residence Regina G. Barber talks to Chlo\\xe9 and Colin about their findings of how redlining and biodiversity are intertwined.

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