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 ...

If the dike breaks in Europe, a great choice could be ProShares Ultra Short Euro which would gain in value if the dike breaks and the Continent drowns in its debt.

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 ...

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 ...

Only a few such structures are known in the world, including the Ossipee Mountains in New Hampshire. The Ossipee ring dike formed around 90 million years ago, ...

(RNS) — With more than 750,000 people displaced by annual flooding, churches in the country have become involved in constructing dikes to safeguard thousands of lives at risk.

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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 ...

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 ...