On this day 20 years ago, Hurricane Katrina made landfall—forever changing the lives of millions and becoming one of the most devastating storms in U.S. history. While its most severe impacts were ...

The devastation of Hurricane Katrina sparked sweeping changes in hurricane forecasting and emergency preparedness. Forecast models, satellite imagery, and real-time data from Hurricane Hunter aircraft ...

Twenty years ago, on Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina cemented itself in history as one of the deadliest and most devastating disasters to strike the United States. Katrina claimed the lives of 1,392 ...

How Hurricane Katrina exposed failures in disaster response and changed FEMA, evacuations, and emergency planning in America.

Katrina's origins was a tropical wave that traversed off the Coast of Africa on August 11th. It moved its way through the Leeward Islands and merged with a previous Tropical Depression named T.D Ten ...

Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, with wind gusts exceeding 130 mph and a surge of water taller than a two-story building. The water left the coast in ruins and swelled through ...

For too long, our national conversation about civil rights has focused narrowly on voting rights or criminal justice reform. These are vital, but, as the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina reminds ...

It’s difficult to believe that it has been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall, causing catastrophic flooding in New Orleans and along the Mississippi coast. Today many are still dealing ...

On Aug. 29, 2005, a devastating hurricane came ashore on the Gulf Coast and caused massive damage. I felt the anguish of Vermonters as they saw their fellow Americans sick, injured, homeless and ...

What started as Tropical Depression Twelve on Aug. 23, 2005, over the Greater Antilles would soon become one of the deadliest hurricanes on record to hit the United States. Traveling through ...