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

The role of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in emergency response is part of the national response plan for disasters. The agency is involved in the preparedness and planning ...

In the final days and hours leading up to Hurricane Katrina, the Gulf Coast braced for a storm unlike any in living memory. Residents recall the eerie tension before the winds and waters hit, as ...

It's been nearly 15 years since Hurricane Katrina ravaged the American southeast, but New York Times journalist Sheri Fink sees echoes of that disaster in today's COVID-19 outbreak. Fink won a ...

Recently, FEMA published an analysis showing that states along the Gulf coast, Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, including ...

On September 25, 2006, the Atlanta Falcons took on the New Orleans Saints at the Louisiana Superdome, the first NFL game played there since 2004, following the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina.

NEW ORLEANS, Aug 29 (Reuters) - From the Lower Ninth Ward to the Superdome, New Orleans observed the 10th anniversary of devastating Hurricane Katrina, paying tribute to its victims and homage to the ...

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