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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 |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |