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Facing Climate Change on the Louisiana Bayous—in picturesSource: The Guardian Date: 05/27/2017 Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana is home to a Native American community who fished, hunted, trapped and farmed the land. But since 1955, more than 90% of the island's original land mass has washed away, the loss caused by logging, oil exploration, hurricanes and ineffective flood control. |
An Island in Louisiana's Bayou is Vanishing; And its residents are fleeing to higher groundSource: Here & Now Date: 06/05/2017 Since the middle of the last century more than 90 percent of Isle de Jean Charleshas dissolved into the southern Louisiana bayou. The island, which is connected to the outside world by a road that's known to flood in perfect weather, is home to a tribe of Native americans who have fished and hunted there since the 1800s. |
First US climate change refugees prepare to relocate in louisianaSource: Herald Sun Date: 06/12/2017 Rising sea levels attributed to climate change is forcing a whole American town to relocate, and many others may soon have to follow. In January the US Government announced it would spend $63 million to help residents of Isle de Jean Charles in the southern state of Louisiana to move from their homes as coastal erosion threatens to sink the entire... |
As This Town Slips into Sea, a $48 Million Rescue Runs into ObstaclesSource: Climate Changed Date: 07/03/2017 There was a fight coming and everyone knew it, so the reverend asked his guests to start with a prayer. "Dear Lord, here we gather to consider ways and means that we might be relocated," began Roch Naquin, who lives in Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana a town slipping into the sea and the site of a radical federal policy experiment. |
Sites for Relocating island residents narrowed to threeSource: DailyComet.com Date: 07/11/2017 Isle de Jean Charles residents and state officials have narrowed possible relocation sites for the community to three in the Schriever area. |
Let's Beat ItSource: Landscape Architecture Magazine Date: 09/19/2017 In Southern Louisiana, Evans + Lighter Landscape Architecture is helping the people of Isle de Jean Charles move away from a disappearing coast. |
CSRS to design new community for first U.S. 'climate refugees'Source: Business Report Date: 09/25/2017 State officials have selected Baton Rouge-based CSRS Inc. to design a new community for residents of Isle de Jean Charles, who last year became the first "climate refugees" in the U.S. |
State Names CSRS Inc. as Master Planner to Oversee Design of Isle De Jean Charles Resettlement CommunityDate: 09/25/2017 Next Phase of High-Profile Resilient Community Plan Begins Now Louisiana’s Office of Community Development is announcing that CSRS Inc. will serve as the master planner to design a new community for the residents of Isle de Jean Charles. The firm won a competitive proposal process as part of a project that continues to garner attention as... |
saving coastal communities requires a community-based approachSource: Brink News Date: 10/31/2017 Hurricanes Harvey and Irma exposed how vulnerable our communities are to extreme climate events. With the two storms destroying thousands of houses and causing well over $200 billion worth of losses, questions have been raised, particularly about how we don't seem to be doing enough to move homes out of harm's way. |
those who remain on this island in louisiana's bayou are barely clinging to what's leftSource: Public Radio East Date: 11/23/2017 Since the middle of the last century more than 90 percent of Isle de Jean Charles has dissolved into the southern Louisiana bayou. The state predicts sea level rise and rampant coastal erosion will make the island unlivable in the coming years. |
beyond the beltway: louisiana isle home to the first us climate refugeesSource: CGTN Date: 11/30/2017 The world's second biggest emitter of greenhouse gases is expected to walk away from the Paris Climate Accord. How will U.S. President Trump's decision affect the world and the people in his own country? |
here's where residents of sinking isle de jean charles will relocateSource: Nola.com Date: 12/19/2017 A sugar farm outside Houma has been selected as the new home for the dozens of people remaining on Isle de Jean Charles, an island rapidly sinking into the Gulf of Mexico. An experimental program aimed at transplating the small, mostly Native American community to safer ground has zeroed in on a 515-acre farm about 40 miles north of the island in... |
state chooses site near thibodaux to relocate isle de jean charles climate refugeesSource: The Advocate Date: 12/21/2017 After nearly two years of deliberations, the state has entered negotiations to purchase a 515-acre sugar cane farm near Thibodaux where officials hope to resettle the residents of Isle de Jean Charles, an island in south Terrebonne Parish that is quickly sinking under rising seas. |
Sense of Urgency Surrounds Isle de Jean Charles RelocationSource: Houma Today Date: 01/07/2018 As negotiations take place for a relocation site for residents and former residents of Isle de Jean Charles, there's concern about this year's hurricane season. |
Left To Louisiana’s Tides, A Village Fights For TimeSource: New York Times Date: 02/24/2018 JEAN LAFITTE, LA. — From a Cessna flying 4,000 feet above Louisiana’s coast, what strikes you first is how much is already lost. |
Climate change threatens to wash away couple’s historySource: CNN Date: 03/02/2018 Seventy years ago, on the day Wenceslaus and Denicia Billiot got married, their wedding party danced along a road that ran from one end of Isle de Jean Charles to the other. |
on the louisiana coast, a native community sinks slowly into the seaSource: Yale Environment 360 Date: 03/15/2018 The Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians of southern Louisiana have been called America's first climate refugees. But two years after receiving federal funding to move to higher ground, the tribe is stuck in limbo, waiting for new homes as the water inches closer to their doors. |
State is buying Isle de Jean Charles relocation site for $11.7 millionSource: The Times Picayune Date: 03/20/2018 |