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Louisiana's Managed Retreat: Isle de Jean CharlesBy: Martin Whybrow Source: Smarter Communities Media Date: 05/08/2018 |
forced to move: climate change already displacing u.s. communitiesBy: Benjamin Goulet Source: 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. |
america's first climate change refugees are preparing to leave an island that will disappear under the sea in the next few yearsBy: David Usborne Source: The Independent Date: 04/01/2018 ISLE DE JEAN CHARLES, Louisiana -- America comes to an end here. |
Shrinking island in Louisiana forcing residents to moveBy: Associated Press Source: 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 louisianaBy: Karen Savage Source: 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... |
State is buying Isle de Jean Charles relocation site for $11.7 millionBy: Mark Schleifstein Source: The Times Picayune Date: 03/20/2018 |
on the louisiana coast, a native community sinks slowly into the seaBy: Ted Jackson Source: Yale Environment 360 Date: 03/15/2018 The Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians of southern Louisiana have been called America's first climate refugees. But two years after receiving federal funding to move to higher ground, the tribe is stuck in limbo, waiting for new homes as the water inches closer to their doors. |
Left To Louisiana’s Tides, A Village Fights For TimeBy: Kevin Sack and John Schwartz Source: New York Times Date: 02/24/2018 JEAN LAFITTE, LA. — From a Cessna flying 4,000 feet above Louisiana’s coast, what strikes you first is how much is already lost. |
Sense of Urgency Surrounds Isle de Jean Charles RelocationBy: Holly Duchmann Source: Houma Today Date: 01/07/2018 As negotiations take place for a relocation site for residents and former residents of Isle de Jean Charles, there's concern about this year's hurricane season. |