Netherlands unions have recently been flexing their muscles in a big way—taking advantage of a situation in which, like many another European nation, Holland is caught between an expanding ...

Marken: A Colorful and Charming Fishing Village in the Netherlands The island of Marken has been inhabited since the 13th century. At that time, it was under the ownership of the Frisian monastery ...

Marken is a colorful and historic fishing village located in the Netherlands. Inhabited since the 13th century, the island was once owned by the Frisian monastery Mariëngaarde, which built dikes ...

He looked up and saw a small hole in the dike through which a tiny stream was flowing. Any child in Holland will shudder at the thought of a leak in the dike! . . . That little hole, if the water ...

Firefighters and volunteers worked to reinforce dikes against rising floodwaters in northern and eastern Germany as heavy rains falling on already soaked ground pushed rivers and streams over ...

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.

This was a classic case of right band, wrong venue. On any other night, Dikes of Holland's psychedelic blues and rockabilly-infused garage rock hoedown would find a happy home several blocks east ...

A Dutch consortium recently tested four different PV system configurations along water in the Netherlands. The country has approximately 17,000 km of dikes and a preliminary study has shown that ...

Several flood plains were also underwater Tuesday in the eastern Netherlands. Rivers surged, causing localized flooding, and some temporary dikes were being built with large sandbags.