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The Toughest Question in Climate Change: Who Gets Saved?Source: Bloomberg View Date: 08/29/2016 Last fall, two towns at opposite ends of the country entered a new kind of contest run by the federal government. At stake was their survival: Each is being consumed by the rising ocean, and winning money from Washington would mean the chance to move to higher ground. |
Meet the residents of Louisiana’s disappearing coastal communitiesSource: PBS NewsHour Date: 07/30/2016 Sinking land, rising seas and an increased storm surge have all contributed to coastal erosion in the bayou. Decades of construction on oil and gas canals have also played a role. |
Native community in Louisiana relocates as land washes awaySource: PBS NewsHour Date: 07/30/2016 Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana has lost 98 percent of its land to coastal erosion caused by sinking land and exacerbated by rising seas and increased storm surges. The tribal community that lives there will be the first to receive federal tax dollars to help them relocate in response to climate change. Hari Sreenivasan reports. |
Louisiana’s Vanishing Island: America’s First Climate RefugeesSource: EcoWatch Date: 06/28/2016 Residents of a Louisiana island are among the first American climate refugees. Encroaching water is forcing them off the land they have lived on for generations. Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana, has been inhabited by tribal communities since the Trail of Tears era. |
Louisiana Climate RefugeesSource: Yale Climate Connections Date: 06/13/2016 Roch Naquin grew up with his five brothers and sisters on the Isles de Jean Charles in Louisiana. The island supported about a hundred families of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe. |
Icebergs on the Bayou, $48 million Grant reported as 1st official US climate refugeesSource: Blasting News (UK) Date: 06/02/2016 On January 21, 2016 the U.S. Department of HUD announced the winners of its $1 Billion National Disaster Resilience Competition. The State of Louisiana and The City of New Orleans combined to receive over $233 Million. |
The First Official Climate Refugees in the U.S. Race Against TimeSource: National Geographic Date: 05/25/2016 A Native American tribe struggles to hold on to their culture in a Louisiana bayou while their land slips into the Gulf of Mexico. |
Tiny Louisiana Community Is Rapidly Vanishing Due to Rising SeasSource: HowStuffWorks Date: 05/24/2016 The people of Isle de Jean Charles have lived off the waters surrounding their small Louisiana town for nearly two centuries now. Soon the waters will take the town from them. |
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. |