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Prospects Are Looking Up for This Gulf Coast Tribe Relocating to Higher GroundSource: Smithsonian Magazine Date: 08/09/2018 As Louisiana’s Isle de Jean Charles slips away, the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe plans community renewal and a museum for their new home. |
'Climate refugees': Gulf Coast isle becomes test case with push to relocate residentsSource: The Washington Times Date: 06/05/2018 |
Louisiana's Managed Retreat: Isle de Jean CharlesSource: Smarter Communities Media Date: 05/08/2018 |
forced to move: climate change already displacing u.s. communitiesSource: Link TV Date: 04/26/2018 The role of climate change in human displacement and migration is being cited by experts as the number one global threat of the 21st century. |
Louisiana 'islanders' find a new home beyond the waterSource: Thomson Reuters Foundation News Date: 04/21/2018 Standing in the long grass on the land where he was born, with the sea now lapping just meters away, Chief Albert Naquin remembers Isle de Jean Charles as a wonderful place to grow up. |
america's first climate change refugees are preparing to leave an island that will disappear under the sea in the next few yearsSource: The Independent Date: 04/01/2018 ISLE DE JEAN CHARLES, Louisiana -- America comes to an end here. |
Shrinking island in Louisiana forcing residents to moveSource: New York Post Date: 03/21/2018 NEW ORLEANS — The effects of global warming can be seen and touched in Louisiana, where officials have begun buying higher ground to relocate an entire town in a bayou being swallowed by higher seas. |
the perils of climate migration: a cautionary tale from louisianaSource: Climate Liability News Date: 03/21/2018 Once a sprawling island, Isle de Jean Charles today is a mere sliver of what it used to be, more than 98 percent of its land has been swept into the Gulf of Mexico over the past 60 years by an increase in severe storms and rising seas. It's why the tiny community was awarded the first-of-its-kind $48.3 million federal grant in 2016 to resettle... |
State is buying Isle de Jean Charles relocation site for $11.7 millionSource: The Times Picayune Date: 03/20/2018 |