Nation Sep 04 Biden walks storm-ravaged Louisiana: ‘I know you’re hurting’ By Josh Boak, Associated Press
Nation Aug 29 Watch 4:04 Ida: Louisiana braces for impact as evacuations continue Evacuations continue and more than 2,000 FEMA personnel are deployed as the gulf coast braces for Hurricane Ida, a category 4 storm -- on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the most devastating storm in America’s history. NewsHour Correspondent Roby Chavez… By PBS NewsHour
Nation Aug 29 EXPLAINER: Ida similar to Katrina, but stronger, smaller Hurricane Ida is looking eerily like a dangerous and perhaps scarier sequel to 2005’s Hurricane Katrina, the costliest storm in American history. But there’s a few still-to-come twists that could make Ida nastier in some ways, but not quite as… By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press
Science Sep 26 Watch 4:20 Will Gulf Coast hurricane season impact this year’s vote? Climate justice organization 350.0rg is hosting an online forum on Wednesday called “Stronger than Storms,” where leaders from U.S. communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis will share their experiences. One organization participating in the forum is the Gulf… By Ivette Feliciano
Arts Sep 01 How poetry helped these hurricane survivors weather the aftermath For those who have lived through these disasters before, there’s a familiar pang of anticipation for the next powerful storm, a theme felt acutely by poets who gathered last week to mark the 15th anniversary of Katrina’s landfall. By Joshua Barajas
Aug 26 Biloxi’s 15-year recovery from Hurricane Katrina offers lessons for other coastal cities By Jennifer Trivedi, The Conversation After the news media move on from a major disaster site, rebuilding continues for years. Continue reading
Jul 13 Barry crawls ashore in Louisiana, weakens to tropical storm By Kevin McGill, Janet McConnaughey, Associated Press Carrying "off the chart" amounts of moisture, Barry crawled ashore Saturday in Louisiana and quickly weakened to a tropical storm that promised to dump heavy rains that could last for days and pose a test of the flood-prevention systems built… Continue reading
Jul 12 New Orleans levees could be tested as tropical storm bears down By Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press The danger to New Orleans is threefold: storm surges from the sea, rain from the sky and water from the rising river if the levees fail. Continue reading
May 30 Watch 9:28 This La. battle is between big industry and a Green Army By Paul Solman General Russel Honore commanded an infantry division in Korea and saw action in Operation Desert Storm, but it was his service as Commander of the Joint Task Force Katrina in 2005 that won him national acclaim. The experience of viewing… Continue watching
Nov 14 Climate change has intensified hurricane rainfall, and now we know how much By Julia Griffin Hurricane Harvey wasn’t an outlier. A new study reports that climate change intensified the rains of other recent cyclones by between 4 and 9 percent. Continue reading