When Hurricane Katrina struck in August 2005, the storm itself was devastating — but the response was worse. Despite days of ...

Hurricane Katrina caused widespread trauma and dislocation. Researchers who followed survivors to track the mental health impacts of the storm found that while the trauma of Katrina caused elevated ...

Two decades after Hurricane Katrina, the rows of pastel “Katrina Cottages” scattered across Louisiana still stand as reminders of both government ambition and bureaucratic missteps. In 2006, the ...

An estimated 1.5 million people were displaced during Hurricane Katrina across Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi, but most significantly from New Orleans. It is estimated that 40% of displaced ...

Like many other meteorologists around the U.S. Gulf Coast on the morning of August 26, 2005, Alan Gerard was monitoring the latest computer model forecasts for Hurricane Katrina—which had just emerged ...

Katrina claimed the lives of at least 1,300 people across the Gulf Coast. Twenty years ago, on Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina cemented itself in history as one of the deadliest and most devastating ...

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 ...

A tropical wave moved off the coast of Africa into the Atlantic Ocean on Aug. 11, 2005, on a westward path. As it crossed the Central Atlantic and eventually reached the Leeward Islands, on Aug. 19 it ...