Famously, Chicago O'Hare International Airport in the United States has eight runways as well as a helipad. That is the most ...

Vergunst believes that climate communication should reach everyone—not from an activist perspective, but out of fairness. “Sea level rise affects us all. People have a right to understand the issue ...

The check is in the mail. 2) I’m from the government here to help you. 3) One size fits all. These are mine. Yours may differ. We learn some things the hard way. When buying clothing for my wife, ...

They built dikes and used wind power to pump out the water behind them reclaiming land from the sea. Over 20% of the Netherlands’ current land (over 600 square miles) has been reclaimed from the ...

Benjamin Franklin once said, “When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.” That moment has already arrived ...

A large number of projects are also underway in the Netherlands and Belgium, including the reinforcement the Markermeer dikes north of Amsterdam ... such as extreme weather conditions and rising sea ...

I visited the new Zeesluis (Sea Lock) in IJmuiden, the Netherlands recently ... Sea Canal was built by digging a channel through the old IJ Bay and lining it with dikes, after which the remaining ...

This means about 10% of the Netherlands was already below sea level before the land reclamation. All that blue on the map is technically below sea level. Image: Reboelje/Wikimedia Commons/CC3.0 The ...

Approximately 26% of the Netherlands lies below sea level, meaning that quite a bit of the country would be underwater if it weren’t for the Dutchies’ extensive system of dikes. The Netherlands’ ...

In the Netherlands, where rivers and sea intertwine intricately, floodwaters reshaped waterways and led to the reinforcement of dikes, giving rise to the Delta Works, a series of construction projects ...