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Cycling in no man's land
connected to the Port of Rotterdam and was created in the 1960s by reclaiming land from the North Sea. It is now possible to cycle through this 'no man's land' and enjoy the light and the sky, even though you ...
Zeeland '53
Not a Bulletin For centuries, the Dutch have reclaimed land from the sea. But on 1 ... weak to protect the reclaimed land. The first that Geluk's family on the island of Schouwen Duiveland ... combination of freak high tides and gale-force winds that killed 1,835 people. Almost 200,000 hectares of land ...
Minister pushes ahead with windmill park
an island in the Zuider Sea. It was incorporated into the reclaimed land of the North East Polder ...
War on water calls for ingenuity
reclaimed their land from the sea with blood, sweat, tears and ingenuity made a huge impression around ... soon be reclaimed by the sea. But rising sea levels will make existing defences inadequate ... lost their homes and entire plots of land disappeared. Water would break the Dutch dykes again ...
Floating protest held at urban sprawl across lake
or tunnel between Amsterdam and the new town of Almere, which lies on polder land reclaimed in the late 1960 ...
Dutch floods captured on film 56 years on
. A total 200,000 hectares of land and 3,000 houses in the provinces of Zeeland, Noord Brabant and Zuid ... rooftops. All the open-air scenes were filmed in Belgian town of Tielrode, where a portion of reclaimed land had been re-flooded for this purpose for a period of six weeks in the autumn of last year ...
Lowlands for life
Location Netherlands To the Dutch, it means three days of live music, camping, partying and fun. Every year, 60 thousand people make their way to the reclaimed low lands of Flevoland province to see over 150 different bands playing on more ...
Oil outweighs environment in Canada's 'Paradise Lost'
tested under the Alberta Clean Air Strategic Alliance. The first reclaimed land was certified not long ... Pipes-for-the-Alberta-Tar-S.jpg The clichéd image of Canada is a land ...
Dutch Don Quixotes fear Europe's largest wind farm
the early 1940s. Then new land was reclaimed and the town of Urk now sits on a peninsula jutting ...
The wisent is back in the Netherlands
brought more land into cultivation; small-scale agriculture in the middle of nature. What you see in the last century is that people are gradually retreating from the marginal agricultural lands. Former woodland will become woodland again because there are better, more fertile agricultural lands. Sandy areas ...
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