As Gulf Swallows Louisiana Island, Displaced Tribe Fears The Future

The American South, The Clarion-Ledger
Thu, 02/27/2020 - 4:00am

Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana has shrunk from 22,000 acres in 1955 to 320. Some call its residents the nation's first climate change refugees.

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