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

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

Twenty years later, Hannibal Nicholls recounts what was going on in his life toward the end of August 2005. He was in college and was engaged to his fiancée. Then suddenly, he was in the Orleans ...

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 ...

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.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency helps Americans prepare for and recover from disasters when states and localities are unable to cover the financial and operational burdens. But as disasters ...

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 ...