The film "Land Behind The Dikes" explores the Netherlands' extensive land reclamation efforts, driven by the need to protect low-lying areas from the sea. It details the construction of dikes and the ...

Some weeks ago the Nazi High Command sent, as a handsome present to The Netherlands High Command, 1,500 copies of the official military map of Germany, showing every creek and hillock, every canal and ...

Police and military personnel began evacuating 800 people from four villages in the low-lying northern Netherlands on Friday amid fears of a dike break following days of drenching rains. Authorities ...

The country renowned for reclaiming land from the water is giving some of it back, to adapt to a changing climate ...

Singapore has added 800 hectares – 8 sq km – of dry, below-sea-level land to its constrained footprint with its first “polder ...

Hans Brinker, Holland’s storybook skating whiz, needn’t hock the silver skates — not yet. But the way the Dutch economy is going, the occasion may arise. Holland has a severe balance-of-payments ...

The future of the city of New Orleans will depend on its ability to keep its citizens' heads above water. On the other side of the Atlantic, the same applies to the future not just of a city but of a ...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Van Oord, the world's third largest dredger, said on Friday it had proposed building a massive dike off the coast of Louisiana to protect the region's ecosystem at threat from an ...