November 7th, 2008 by Holland News

November 7th, 2008 by Holland News

 National Anthem of The Netherlands

November 7th, 2008 by Holland News

LELYSTAD, the Netherlands — In this tiny, low-lying country, where much of the land has been clawed from the sea, people like to say that while God may have created the world, it was the Dutch who created Holland.

Consider this seaside town of brick homes huddled behind steep dikes. In the 1960s, Lelystad was mostly shacks housing workers who erected dikes and drained water to create land for farming, industry and homes. Since then, Lelystad has grown by leaps and bounds, to 73,000 people — and it is growing still.

Today, just as they have for centuries, the Dutch need more land to house an expanding population. They also need to confront a new threat to their lands, roughly two-thirds of which lie below sea level: the specter of rising ocean levels associated with global warming.

So a government commission recently proposed pushing out the Netherlands’ shoreline to meet the challenge of an increase in the ocean’s levels; another commission proposed the construction of islands off the Dutch coast, like barrier reefs in the North Sea.

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August 30th, 2008 by Holland News

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July 15th, 2008 by Holland News

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July 10th, 2008 by Holland News

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June 22nd, 2008 by Holland News

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