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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· 12 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 ...
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....
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 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...
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 ...
State approval of Louisiana home-school curricula could be erased
Louisiana Illuminator via Yahoo News· 2 months agoState Rep. Beryl Amedée proudly acknowledges she home-schooled her three sons, spending 21 years...
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· 8 months agoThink of “ghost towns” and images of dusty, lost-to-time towns, like those in America’s Wild West,...