A Chinook helicopter drops sandbags into a breach along the London Avenue canal in New Orleans to close a levee breach after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. After the storm, the Army Corps of ...

This story, headlined "Beating back the sea," was originally published Nov. 13, 2005. It is being republished for the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina as part of The Times-Picayune's ...

But storm surge forecasts at high resolution can be slow. As a coastal engineer, I study how storm surge and waves interact with natural and human-made features on the ocean floor and coast and ways ...

Flooding from wind-driven storm surge will extend from eastern North Carolina to southern New England through Tuesday as a sprawling tropical wind and rainstorm crawls northward before turning out to ...

Europe's coastlines face an unprecedented challenge as storm surge patterns shift and intensify across the North Sea region. The once-predictable seasonal rhythm of winter storms has given way to more ...

It has been 20 years since New Orleans’ faulty levee system failed during Hurricane Katrina, causing a flood that claimed almost 1,400 lives and inflicted more than $150 billion in economic damage.

Hurricanes are America’s most destructive natural hazards, causing more deaths and property damage than any other type of disaster. Since 1980, these powerful tropical storms have done more than ...