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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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
'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. |
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. |