Mark Schleifstein of The Times-Picayune, the New Orleans newspaper, describes worst-case scenarios for environmental damage in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

The inevitable politicization of Hurricane Katrina–making it a prism for every controversy from the war in Iraq to tax cuts to race, poverty, and even judicial nominations–calls to mind ...

Scientists harvested fish off the Mississippi coast as part of the latest effort to assess environmental damage inflicted by Hurricane Katrina's monstrous storm surge and toxic floodwaters ...

Seventeen years after Hurricane Katrina and institutional failures reveal environmental justice remains a matter of Black life and death ...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) posted a series of tweets that touted owning an AR-15 rifle citing what he called protection in the event there is a “breakdown of law and order” durin… ...

A science unit report looks at the environmental cleanup in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina inundated the city with filthy floodwater. Federal and state officials are at odds with ...

A popular and low-maintenance plant, the Peggy Martin rose, became a symbol of resilience after Hurricane Katrina. See why.

Katrina exposed for the world how existing inequality can help turn an extreme weather event into a catastrophe, and it gave birth to an environmental justice movement that reverberates beyond New ...

Hurricane Katrina survivors won a court battle involving FEMA trailers on Friday. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was to start regulating formaldehyde, a chemical used to treat wood ...

Little wonder Katrina packed such a punch at the pump and in natural-gas bills, since nearly 25 percent of America's domestic oil and gas production was concentrated in its path.

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and claimed more than 1,800 lives, two acclaimed photojournalists with deep Philadelphia roots are revisiting the tragedy through a ...