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Take a 4K driving tour to Marken in the Netherlands, traveling across scenic dikes and roads to reach the island town below ...
The Dutch city of Rotterdam is no stranger to the challenge of keeping water out, with some areas sitting more than 20 feet ...
Seawalls and other coastal fortifications have been used globally to protect against damaging tides. In Japan, fortress-like ...
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Finger on the dike

Some of you may have heard about a brave Dutch boy who saved Haarlem, a Dutch municipality near Amsterdam, from floods. Large parts of the Netherlands are below sea level, and the Dutch, over the ...
Land reclamation works at Pulau Tekong have been completed, adding about 800ha of land at the north-western tip of the island ...
The polder will be used for military training purposes. Singapore has reclaimed about 800 hectares of land (about the size of ...
LAHORE: Netherlands today is an undisputed global leader in flood defense, spending up to 1.3 billion Euros annually for diligently maintaining a sprawling network of sloped dikes, elevated ...
The Indonesian government wants to build a 700km seawall along Java's coast to tackle land loss as climate change lifts sea ...
Global warming and land subsidence are causing several cities to sink, threatening their existence by the end of the century. Jakarta, Lagos, and Hous ...
LIKE Venice with its canals, Amsterdam with its dikes, or Singapore with its Marina Bay, the Philippines has the potential to transform its waterways into thriving corridors of life, culture and ...
Curators and conservators are finding innovative solutions to protect our history from disaster. Will some be destroyed ...
The project, equivalent to the size of two Toa Payoh towns, was first announced by Prime Minister Lawrence Wong in 2016, when ...