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A Louisiana Tribe Is Now Officially A Community Of Climate RefugeesSource: Huff Post Science Date: 02/12/2016 Deep in the bayous of Louisiana, about 80 miles southwest of New Orleans, lies the Isle de Jean Charles, a tiny swath of land that’s all but vanished into the Gulf of Mexico. |
Louisiana Tribe Officially Becomes America's First Climate RefugeesSource: Weather.com Date: 02/22/2016 French-speaking Indians who live deep in Louisiana bayou, some 50 miles south of New Orleans, became the United States' first official climate refugees last week when the federal government awarded them $48 million to relocate. |
Louisiana's vanishing island: the climate 'refugees' resettling for $52mSource: The Guardian Date: 03/15/2016 Wenceslaus Billiot, an 88-year-old native of Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana, remembers growing up on a much different island than the two-mile sliver of his ancestral home that remains today. |
Native American Tribe Gets Federal Funds to Flee Rising SeasSource: Inside Climate News Date: 03/16/2016 In a disappearing section of Louisiana coastline, the people who call Isle De Jean Charles home are moving to save their community and culture. |
Native American tribe to relocate from Louisiana coast as sea levels riseSource: Reuters News Service/reprinted in Baton Rouge Business Report Date: 03/17/2016 A small Native American community in coastal Louisiana is to be resettled after losing nearly all its land partly due to rising seas, a first in the United States. |
Rising sea levels force U.S. to resettle Native American tribeSource: PBS News Hour Date: 03/17/2016 A Native American tribe located in coastal Louisiana will become the first community in U.S. history to be relocated due, in part, to rising sea levels, said Marion McFadden, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, on Thursday. |
The First U.S. Climate RefugeesSource: Bloomberg View Date: 03/20/2016 Early one morning at the beginning of March, two black Chevy Suburbans filled with federal and state development officials left New Orleans for Louisiana's coast. Almost two hours later, they turned onto Island Road, a low spit of asphalt nearly three miles long with water on either side. |
The lucky ones: Native American tribe receives $48m to flee climate changeSource: The Guardian Date: 03/23/2016 In Louisiana, the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe has been awarded a natural disaster grant to resettle away from their sinking land. But other indigenous Americans have no way out |
Native Community Will Move to Higher Ground in LouisianaSource: Triple Pundit Date: 04/04/2016 A native community in southern Louisiana hopes to make a historic move to higher ground, now that it has received a major federal grant for relocation. Awaiting finalization from the state, the tribe hopes to relocate within the next few years. |
'There's no more land'Source: CNN Date: 04/08/2016 Wenceslaus Billiot, an 89-year-old with suede-soft eyes and a bayou-French accent, asked me to follow him onto the second-story balcony of his stork-legged house here in the southern Louisiana marshland. |
Isle de Jean Charles tribe looks at moving entire community north in first-of-its-kind test caseSource: The Advocate Date: 04/09/2016 Looking out from the house he built in 1959 with lumber brought by boat to this island at the south end of Terrebonne Parish, Wenceslaus Billiot remembers when the view from his back porch was thick forest and solid marsh. |
Who gets to move off the island? Local American Indian tribes disagreeSource: Houma Courier/Daily Comet Date: 04/23/2016 Delegates from an American Indian tribe living on Isle de Jean Charles and state officials disagree over how to spend millions of dollars intended to move the island's residents away from the encroaching Gulf of Mexico. |
Resettling the First American Climate RefugeesSource: New York Times Date: 05/02/2016 A $48 million grant for Isle de Jean Charles, La., is the first allocation of federal tax dollars to move an entire community struggling with the effects of climate change. |
First US climate refugees get $48 million to moveSource: Christian Science Monitor Date: 05/03/2016 A first-of-its-kind, $48 million federal grant aims to move the entire community of the sinking Isle de Jean Charles, La., to a drier place. |
US Spends Nearly $50 Million To Relocate First American Climate RefugeesSource: Tech Times Date: 05/04/2016 Climate change, particularly unprecedented sea level rise, is already creating refugees in the United States. |
Preservation in Print April 2016: Coastal ResilienceSource: Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans Date: 05/05/2016 Wenceslaus Billiot stands on his front porch on the Isle de Jean Charles in Terrebonne Parish. Water laps at the base of a small levee 20 feet from the back door of his home, which sits perched on pilings 11 feet above a manicured lawn. |
Chased from home by climate changeSource: OXFAM America Date: 05/10/2016 Southeast Louisiana is in the news once again—not for a hurricane or a flood this time, but for efforts to protect communities dealing with the blows of these disasters, along with the impacts of climate change. |
Native Americans' Relocation From Louisiana Home: 'First Climate Change Refugees'Source: WWNO-NPR: Weekend Edition Saturday Date: 05/14/2016 Members of a Native American community in south Louisiana are retreating from their coastal home and trying to preserve their culture in the process. |