Antwerp, the greatest freight port on the continent of Europe (annual peacetime capacity: 23,500,000 tons), was capable of supplying all the Allied armies in the Low Countries, and it had been ...

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World File Photos Flood waters in the fields around Coalbank Slough in Coos Bay have risen high enough to flood the homes on Old Wireless Lane, in the background. A break in the dike released ...

With climate change bringing more powerful storms and rising sea levels , the dike is getting a major makeover. The Dutch government has embarked on a future-proofing project to beef up the iconic ...

This week the U.S. Corps of Engineers announced that it was setting aside $514 million to complete repairs on the Herbert Hoover Dike, pictured here in 2006, around Lake Okeechobee by 2022. Luis M ...

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THE AFSLUITDIJK, Netherlands (AP) — Rising up in a thin line through the waters separating the provinces of North Holland and Friesland, the 87-year-old Afsluitdijk is one of the low-lying ...