Four more New Orleans police officers have been charged in the deadly shootings of two people in Hurricane Katrina’s chaotic aftermath. Six current or former New Orleans officers have already pleaded ...

Hurricanes in the U.S. the last few decades killed thousands more people than meteorologists traditionally calculate and a disproportionate number of those victims are poor, vulnerable and minorities, ...

A key statute was designed to rein in the Homeland Security secretary and prevent deadly mistakes. Lawyers say its provisions are difficult to enforce.

When Hurricane Katrina struck the U.S. in 2005, nearly 2000 people lost their lives and the cost of the catastrophe exceeded $100 billion. Now, 21 years later, new research from The University of ...

The Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research is an interdisciplinary research center in which environmental engineers, environmental health scientists, philosophers, and other groups work ...

In August 2005, a Category 3 hurricane hit the Gulf coast, with winds raging between 120 and 140 mph. Despite a mandatory evacuation order, tens of thousands of residents remained, either unable or ...

What St. Louis can learn from New Orleans’s long road to recovery. Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, Nine PBS visits New Orleans to uncover lessons in resilience and equity that can guide St.

Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast August 29, 2005, and within hours it became the largest natural disaster in U.S. history. The extent of the devastation was unprecedented and had an ...