Wetlands along the southern coastlines of the United States serve as natural blocks to approaching hurricanes, starving them of warm ocean water and creating physical barriers to storm surge floods. However, construction...

This National Aeronautics and Space Administration website, part of the Looking at Earth project, features photos and videos of hurricanes from 1998 through 2005, using recent advances in intensity monitoring and 3-D...

This National Aeronautics and Space Administration website features photos of the New Orleans area during hurricane Katrina. The before and after photos highlight areas devastated by the storm. The website contains...

Long before Hurricane Katrina, most experts knew the city of New Orleans was vulnerable to flooding caused by hurricanes because it is below sea level, between a lake and a river, and on the hurricane-prone Gulf Coast....

This NASA website contains information about hurricanes and describes how they form, intensify, and then weaken. The site explains the physics of hurricane formation and also the chain reaction that intensifies hurricane...