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How sea level rise drove the native community of Isle de Jean Charles from their homes
Good Morning America via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe community Isle de Jean Charles, a barrier island located in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, where...
Climate change forced an Indigenous community in Louisiana to relocate from their ancestral land: 'I...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 10 months agoFor generations, the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe called the Isle de Jean Charles home. Due to...
'A new day': Isle de Jean Charles residents get keys to new homes on higher ground
The Courier via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe first group of residents from Isle de Jean Charles received the keys to their new homes Wednesday as part of a year-long program to relocate those who want to leave the small island community ...
How the first federal climate relocation of a whole community stumbled
Yahoo News· 2 years agoA sliver is all of this islet that remains above water. What hasn’t slipped into the Gulf of Mexico...
Louisiana’s Coastline Is Crumbling. These Tribes Know How to Save it
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThis story is part of the Pulitzer Center’s nationwide Connected Coastlines reporting initiative....
French-language school hopes to open next year for students in Terrebonne and Lafourche
The Courier via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPlans are moving forward to open a French-language school in Pointe-aux-Chenes after the state...
Environmental disasters and ‘dark’ tourism: The modern-day ghost towns created by the climate crisis
CNN via Yahoo News· 6 months agoThink of “ghost towns” and images of dusty, lost-to-time towns, like those in America’s Wild West,...
Equity debate over millions for flood mitigation in the south Delta
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLast in a three-part series Anderson Jones Sr. has nightmares whenever there’s a downpour. Three years after his home flooded in the historic south Delta flooding of 2019, Anderson has still ...
'A natural fit': Effort to open French language school in Terrebonne heads to state House
The Courier via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPointe-aux-Chenes parents' effort to open a French-language school is headed to a vote in the state...
Louisiana activists, professors creating free environmental justice lessons for students
The Daily Advertiser via Yahoo News· 2 years agoGay Hanks became an environmental activist in Kaplan in 1978 after losing her young daughter to...