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Louisiana Climate RefugeesBy: Bud Ward Source: 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 refugeesBy: Charles Marsala Source: 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 TimeBy: Carolyn Van Houten Source: 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 SeasBy: John Donovan Source: 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'By: Tegan Wendland 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. |
Chased from home by climate changeBy: Jeffrey Buchanan Source: 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 ResilienceBy: Stephen Maloney Source: 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 RefugeesBy: Katrina Pascual Source: 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 moveBy: Madison Margolin, Contributor Source: 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. |