New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell has ordered the evacuation of all residents living outside the city’s levee system, and advised those inside to consider leaving too, as the city braces for Hurricane Ida’s landfall.
The rapid warming of Earth may not have directly caused all of the extreme weather events that have taken place in the past two decades – from the European heat wave of 2003 to Hurricane Katrina – but climate change has in some way had an impact on them, a new report concludes.
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, killing 1,800 people and destroying 100,000 homes – President Barack Obama hailed the southern U.S. city’s revival.