This month marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina became the most destructive storm in US history. Here we look what makes a record-breaking hurricane.

Hondurans in New Orleans survived two hurricanes and rebuilt a city, yet their place in its history is often overlooked.

Large and powerful hurricanes like Erin can generate huge waves that can batter coastal areas hundreds of miles from the ...

Tropical storms caused more than 9,000 fatalities during the 1998 hurricane season, primarily because of Hurricane Mitch, which caused massive flooding in Honduras and Nicaragua.

Hurricane Mitch forced her and her family to flee their home in 1998 and “start from scratch”. But she was not prepared for the devastation wrought by back-to-back hurricanes Eta and Iota. “The water ...

The 1925 hurricane season was relatively quiet, but it still made history. On Dec. 1, a hurricane made landfall in Florida, one of the latest hurricanes to hit the U.S. on record.

The Department of Homeland Security says it's ending Temporary Protected Status for nearly 80,000 Hondurans and Nicaraguans in the U.S. This status, granted after Hurricane Mitch in 1998, allowed ...

Honduras was designated for TPS in 1999 after the impact of Hurricane Mitch in 1998. “ Temporary Protected Status was designed to be just that—temporary, ” said Secretary Kristi Noem. “ It is clear ...

Topical Press Agency // Getty Images 1925: A late-season hurricane strikes Florida – Recorded storms: 4 – Hurricanes: 1 – Category 3 or higher hurricanes: 0 The 1925 hurricane season was ...

The volunteer group came together in late 1998 after Hurricane Mitch roared through the Gulf of Mexico and hammered Honduras. Sparked by a conversation at Nightingale Nursing, a group of nurses ...

Jena Eisenberg of Seal Beach was watching news coverage of the devastating 1998 Hurricane Mitch, which killed nearly 10,000 people in Central America and left another 2 million homeless.