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Science Talk

African-Americans, Nature and Environmental Justice

Science Talk

Scientific American

Science

4.2644 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Journalist Bob Hirshon reports from the Taking Nature Black conference, reporter Shahla Farzan talks about tracking copperhead snakes, and nanoscientist Ondrej Krivanek discusses microscopes with subangstrom resolution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is Scientific American Science Talk posted on July 21st, 2020.

0:37.0

I'm Steve Murski. On this episode, I've gone to so many

0:40.9

different community meetings, and I can tell you from firsthand experience how much more deference

0:46.5

communities that are rich and white get in the planning process, how they get to co-create their

0:52.7

communities as part of that, because they have power that they can leverage in that process.

0:56.9

That's Maisie Hughes.

0:58.7

She's a landscape architect and arborist.

1:01.5

And on February 27th, before the COVID-19 lockdown,

1:05.3

she spoke at the Taking Nature Black Conference in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

1:09.9

The event was hosted by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and sponsored by the Washington, D.C. region's Audubon Naturalist Society as part of their Black History Month celebration. The conference attracted hundreds of speakers and attendees who discussed environmental issues in the African American community.

1:31.3

Science journalist Bob Hirshan attended the event and prepared a report.

1:36.7

We'll also hear a sponsored segment from the Cavley Prize with a new laureate in nanoscience,

1:38.1

Andrei Kravannock.

1:45.1

And finally, science reporter Shayla Farzan brings us a story about researchers looking for instead of running running from Copperhead Snakes. But first, we'll go to the conference, Taking Nature Black.

1:54.1

Good morning. This is so exciting. Fred Tutman is the riverkeeper for the Patunxent River in Maryland, and a winner of

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