The vaunted system of dikes and earthen dams in the Netherlands began crumbling Wednesday in the face of rampaging rivers that have caused Europe's worst floods in this century. Dutch ...

The Netherlands' dikes . 5 of 13. ... Dams had protected farmland from the sea since at least the Roman times, but large-scale building of dikes occurred around 1,000 AD, ...

It is being used to inspect dikes and dams on the Danube river and in the Netherlands. A company from one of ESA's Business Incubation Centres has used space technology to develop a scanner to ...

Often made of peat, dike walls are more likely to dry out and become unstable due to lack of rain. After weeks of drought and intense summer heat, the Netherlands has declared a state of emergency.

With the advent of short skirts, high heels and Dutch Teddy boys from the mainland, public cuddling became more basic. On one wild night last winter, 500 youngsters, many of them drunk, rioted on ...

A Dutch scientist has proposed one of the most extreme and ambitious plans in modern engineering: to build a massive dam that would stretch across the entire North Sea. The "Northern European ...

"Dams are an expression of power, modernity and humankind's dominance of nature," explains Dr. Baghel. According to his research, there are now more than 45,000 large dams in the world. In India alone ...