The five-part documentary premiering Sunday on National Geographic is at once highly compelling and difficult to watch, ...

Next month marks the 20th anniversary of one of the most devastating natural disasters in US history: Hurricane Katrina, a ...

Race Against Time' looks at the effect of the 2005 disaster. Director Traci A. Curry spoke to Newsweek about the importance ...

The most significant lack Katrina revealed is an empathy deficit among America’s citizens.

On a recent Sunday afternoon, tears welled in Sharon Becnel’s eyes as she heard her now 34-year-old daughter reminisce about ...

With rarely viewed archive footage, first person testimony and interviews with the major government and emergency response ...

Twenty years ago this August, the winds blew, the water came up and lives were changed. To remember and pay homage to the ...

CRADLING her three-week-old son as shots rang out in the dark, Taffany Smith was told to scrape off his dirty nappies and use ...

Mimi Hymel said the trauma of escaping Hurricane Katrina had a lasting impact on her childhood. But 20 years later, she’s ...

National Geographic’s series takes a detailed look at how engineering failures, government missteps, and media chaos turned a ...

Two decades after Hurricane Katrina drowned much of New Orleans and exposed deep cracks in America’s disaster response and ...