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Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina became one of the deadliest storms ever to hit the U.S. After…

Like many other meteorologists around the U.S. Gulf Coast on the morning of August 26, 2005, Alan Gerard was monitoring the latest computer model forecasts for…

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina drowned New Orleans and notably the city’s low-income Lower Ninth Ward. The flooding killed almost 1,400 people. The levees and…

Sandy Rosenthal, founder of Levees.org, stands in the Flooded House Museum where one of the levees breached in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The…