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The U.S. administration, led by President Joseph Biden, is proposing a massive infrastructure plan to replace the nation’s crumbling bridges, roads and other critical structures. But to make those investments pay off, the U.S. will need designs that can endure the changing climate. Most U.S. infrastructure is designed to stand for decades, including through what engineers expect to be rare storms and floods. However, extreme storms that were considered rare a few decades years ago are already...

22 March 2019 15:13 GMT Updated  2 April 2019 10:11 GMT Developer Windpark Fryslân has awarded a conditional contract to build a 383MW nearshore wind farm in the Netherlands that would be the largest yet to be constructed on a lake. The deal for the project on the Ijsselmeer artificial lake went to Zuiderzeewind, a consortium of installer Van Oord and wind turbine OEM Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE). SGRE in August 2018 had already been named preferred supplier for the €500m ($5...

Three workers in a boat hacked away at ice on Thursday to create a watery barrier around the Dutch prime mi...

The Netherlands is caught in its biggest freeze in a decade, amid a European cold snap that has brought harsh weather to parts of the continent.

Dutch make hole in the dyke to allow migrating fish through An artist’s impression of what the passage will look like. Illustration: DeAfsluitdijk.nl Work has started on a four year project to boost fish numbers by allowing them free passage from the Wadden Sea to the IJsselmeer lake via a gap in the Afsluitdijk, which was built as part of Dutch flood defences and completed in 1932. Migrating fish, which need both salt and fresh water to breed, are already gaining access via the sluices of t...

Working at home slashes traffic congestion by 63%, Afsluitdijk was jam black spot Photo: Depositphotos.com Working from home slashed the length and duration of traffic jams on Dutch roads by 63% this year, according to motoring organisation ANWB. In the first two months of this year, the number of jams rose by 20% but that came to an abrupt end on March 15, when the Dutch government introduced its ‘intelligent’ lockdown. There were traffic jams again in the summer, when the good weather en...

The Navigational History of a Challenging Inland Sea The 32km-long dam called the Afsluitdijk, separating what was then the Zuiderzee from the North Sea, was completed in the Netherlands in 1932. It transformed the Zuiderzee from a large, shallow bay of the North Sea into a freshwater lake, which was renamed the IJsselmeer in a reference to the River IJssel – one of the major branches of the Rhine. This feat of Dutch hydraulic engineering signalled the end for the Zuiderzee and its rich his...