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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... |
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. |
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. |
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's Managed Retreat: Isle de Jean CharlesSource: Smarter Communities Media Date: 05/08/2018 |
'Climate refugees': Gulf Coast isle becomes test case with push to relocate residentsSource: The Washington Times Date: 06/05/2018 |
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. |
Don't Label Them Climate Change Refugees, Says a Louisiana Planner, They're PioneersSource: Common Edge Date: 08/23/2018 In Louisiana, real estate is a commodity. According to the state's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, more than 1,900 square miles have been lost since the 1930s, and an additional 4,120 square miles could be lost over the next 50 years. |
Confronting the Costs of Coastal Land LossSource: Route Fifty Date: 11/08/2018 The Louisiana coast is disappearing, acres of land eroding away every day. It’s a well known fact, which for years has prompted commissions, studies and development of new infrastructure to rechannel Mississippi River sediment back into the wetlands where it is needed. |
State of Louisiana Buys Land for Isle De Jean Charles ResettlementDate: 01/09/2019 The Louisiana Land Trust on behalf of the Office of Community Development is purchasing 515 acres of farmland in the Schriever area of Terrebonne Parish to serve as the resettlement site for the residents of Isle de Jean Charles. The $11.7 million purchase continues the resettlement of the residents from their island community in lower Terrebonne... |
State closes purchase of land for Isle de Jean Charles climate refugeesSource: The Advocate Date: 01/10/2019 The state has closed on the $11.7 million purchase of a 515-acre tract of land near Thibodaux that will be the new home of the current residents of Isle de Jean Charles, whose narrow strip of land is under threat from the rising Gulf of Mexico. |
98% of this Louisiana community has disappearedSource: YouTube Date: 02/12/2019 CNN's Bill Weir went to Isle de Jean Charles on the Louisiana coast as residents grapple with moving their community inland as water levels surrounding the island continue to rise. |
The Feds are spending $48 million to move his village. But he doesn't want to go.Source: CNN Date: 02/12/2019 The plans are grand -- a brand new community with homes, baseball fields, fishing ponds, a meeting hall and a solar farm to generate electricity to sell. |
State of La Selects Site for Isle De Jean Charles ResettlementDate: 03/20/2019 Residents of the environmentally at-risk Isle de Jean Charles are a step closer to a resilient and historically contextual resettlement community. The Louisiana Office of Community Development is starting the process of purchasing a 515-acre tract of high ground near Schriever in northern Terrebonne Parish for $11.7 million. Today’s... |
The Feds are spending $48 million to move his village. But he doesn't want to go.Source: CNN Date: 04/02/2019 Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana (CNN) -- The plans are grand -- a brand new community with homes, baseball fields, fishing ponds, a meeting hall and a solar farm to generate electricity to sell. |
On a sinking Louisiana island, many aren’t ready to leaveSource: Los Angeles Times Date: 04/23/2019 This island will cease to exist. That much seems certain. |
Tribal chief on Isle de Jean Charles says it's time to leaveSource: nola.com Date: 06/25/2019 Just a week after Hurricane Gustav destroyed Isle de Jean Charles in Terrebone Parish, residents Virgil Dardar, left, and Chris Brunet, back center, stand outside their raised home with Albert Naquin, who is the Chief of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians on the island. |