Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana ... pushes others off their foundations. The Lower Ninth Ward begins flooding extremely rapidly, and a barge drifts through the major part of the breach ...

The city still hasn’t recovered the estimated 200,000 trees lost to Hurricane Katrina 20 years ago. That lack of canopy is visible in the Lower 9th Ward, a majority Black neighborhood and one of ...

But Katrina was too much for the under-maintained levees, and they quickly broke from the force of incoming water, destroying houses like this one in the city's Lower Ninth Ward. At its worst ...

The city of New Orleans is still rebuilding and repairing homes that were damaged in the fallout from 2005's Hurricane Katrina ... term resident in the Lower Ninth Ward, one of the city's hardest ...

When the levees were breached in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, the Ninth Ward was inundated. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted ...