NEW ORLEANS -- The beleaguered engineers trying to shore up the city's flood protection say they learned a major lesson during a tour of Dutch levees and floodgates: It's unfair to compare projects ...

A twin-prop Chinook helicopter shatters the calm of the Dutch countryside, hovering just metres from a canal before dumping ...

A new book from a Calvin College professor of engineering was planned long before Hurricane Katrina. But its author admits the topic became a lot more timely after the destruction last year in New ...

A new study has an important lesson for would-be conquerors eyeing up the Netherlands: Bring your swimmies, because you might be welcomed with a flood. After examining historical maps and other ...

A visit to Houston on Friday by the Dutch queen highlighted a long friendship between Texas and the Netherlands that grew from their fight against a mutual enemy: flooding. While meeting with ...

Netherlands, Feb. 4, 1953: A traffic sign is all that’s visible on a street inundated by floodwaters on Schouen Island. Tidal seas whipped by gale-force winds had already claimed over 1,000 lives in ...

When Cindy de Jonge-Stegink, a beaver consultant, is lying in bed at night, her fingers are crossed and she’s praying that a beaver isn’t digging a tunnel in a watercourse out there in the north of ...

In the spitting rain that is endemic to the Netherlands, Anneke van Lelieveld bundles up in her bright orange cardigan at her home on the New Merwede River, and turns to look out over the wetlands ...

Extreme rainfall is causing deadly and destructive floods globally. The Netherlands averted disaster this summer by creating flood plains. By Thomas Erdbrink The Netherlands, accustomed to wet weather ...