Isle de Jean Charles

The civil rights complaint argues that the Indigenous residents of the island were unfairly excluded from decision making and forced to surrender control of their island properties.

The Isle de Jean resettlement program, a construction project spurred by extreme land loss that has been in the works for six years, is expected to finally wrap up this spring and move in its residents.

Native American tribes in Louisiana and Alaska are asking the United Nations for help. Tribal leaders say climate change is destroying their communities…

A year ago this month, Karl Lengel sat down with author Elizabeth Rush to discuss her book Rising: Dispatches From the New American Shore, described as "a…

It was big news in 2016 when the state was awarded $48 million to relocate people from the disappearing island of Isle de Jean Charles. But the process…