I was inspired by an 1890 photo of Dutch boys to understand their wide pants. This rabbit hole led me to explore the origin ...

The Netherlands has approximately 17,000 km of dikes and a preliminary study has shown that they offer the potential to host 11 GW of PV systems, without occupying agricultural land.

From Jan. 31 - Feb. 1, 1953, 72 years ago tonight, a powerful storm with high winds pushed a catastrophic surge of water from the North Sea into southern parts of the Netherlands.

Dutch researchers are trying to determine whether large-scale PV projects can be deployed on flood-control dikes across the Netherlands. A 5 MW solar project has already been built on a dike near ...

By Feb. 1, about 770 square miles of southern Holland were inundated ... died from the floods in the Netherlands, alone. I n neighboring Belgium, 37 breaches in dikes flooded several towns ...