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Washed AwayBy: Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson Source: Full Measure Date: 10/16/2016 A small Louisiana community is part of a groundbreaking project to relocate together at taxpayer expense |
How Louisiana Is Relocating a Community Threatened by Climate ChangeBy: Patrick Sisson Source: Curbed: Urban Planning Date: 09/29/2016 Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana, a small coastal island in the Gulf of Mexico, is currently the site of a far-reaching experiment that may shape how the government, at every level, thinks about one of the looming issues of climate change: resettlement. |
Stay or go? Isle de Jean Charles families wrestle with the seaBy: Ted Jackson Source: The Times-Picayune Date: 09/13/2016 The message scrawled on the whitewashed plywood sign was clear, even if it was only one man's perspective: "We are not moving off this island. If some people want to move, they can go. But leave us alone." It was signed, "Edison Jr." |
Relocating Coastal Tribe Indicates Future Challenges For LouisianaBy: Tegan Wendland Source: WWNO Date: 09/07/2016 Sea level rise and land loss is affecting communities all over the world, not just in Louisiana. But Louisiana has one of the first communities that will be entirely resettled as a result: the Isle de Jean Charles. |
Isle De Jean Charles: Louisiana Community To Be Climate Change RefugeesBy: Hannah Thomas-Peter, US Correspondent Source: Sky News, UK Date: 08/30/2016 A US community is given a government grant to leave, as climate change is helping to make their homes unlivable |
The Toughest Question in Climate Change: Who Gets Saved?By: Christopher Flavelle 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 communitiesBy: News Desk Source: 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 awayBy: Saskia de Melker and Melanie Saltzman Source: 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 RefugeesBy: Katie Pohlman Source: 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. |