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, ...

THE AFSLUITDIJK, Netherlands (AP) — Rising up in a thin line through the waters separating the provinces of North Holland and Friesland, the 87-year-old Afsluitdijk is one of the low-lying ...

The Dutch government believes that with new technology the country’s dikes could be used to generate power while keeping the safety of the citizens and the welfare of nature in mind.

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 ...

No one really knows exactly how long the Dutch have been fighting back the North Sea. As early as 1366, the Dutch were using windmills to pump water out over levees at Kinderdijk (now a UNESCO ...

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 ...

Rising up in a thin line through the waters separating the provinces of North Holland and Friesland, the 87-year-old Afsluitdijk is one of the low-lying Netherlands' key defenses against its ...

With climate change bringing bigger storms and rising water levels, one of the low-lying Netherlands' key defenses against the sea is getting a major makeover ...