As the 2025 hurricane season approaches, New Orleans leaders reflect on Katrina’s legacy, highlight major storm protection ...

New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the ...

NEW ORLEANS — A judge has awarded New Orleans total ownership of massive tracts of coastal land Edward Wisner left to the city 111 years ago, including lucrative leases at a major Gulf port that could ...

Some of the wealthiest cities along the US coastline could soon sink under the waves of rising sea levels, according to a ...

President Trump’s executive order seeking to overhaul how U.S. elections are run includes a somewhat obscure reference to the ...

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Although weather-related natural disasters are becoming more frequent and severe, not all American homeowners are equally in ...

A new study reveals that uneven land subsidence could impact 29,000 buildings across the America's most populated ...

and the University of Maryland argued that climate change was the major driving factor behind New Orleans' ongoing flooding problems. Compared to measurements in 1993, the study in Water ...

As the river swelled, Louisiana officials grew increasingly concerned that the levee system protecting New Orleans could break, flooding the ... swamp those abilities. University of Mississippi ...

with too little flood protection and insufficient drainage, says Craig Colton, a geographer at Louisiana State University. Katrina underscored how badly New Orleans needed to update it’s ...

On Thursday, while New Orleans streets remained high and dry, the NOLA Ready Streetwise map showed eight sensor locations reporting street flooding. We checked out four locations and found no high ...