The United States’ Climate Change Refugees
Deep in the Louisiana bayou, residents of Isle de Jean Charles are being forced from their homes. The island (about 1.5 hours from New Orleans) has lost a staggering 98% of its land since 1955—due to climate change, hurricanes and 2010’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill—and the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indian people who live there have been fleeing for some time, but now have officially been offered $48 million to relocate. They are the United States’ first official climate change refugees and their island home is expected to have completely disappeared within 50 years. Read more on Atlas Obscura.
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