The Dutch are world champions and coastal protection. They have to be, because large parts of their country lie below sea level. Now they are upgrading their dikes. English silt grass, which takes energy from the floods, is supposed to help. Climate change is already… Read More

The French documentary production company Les Films d’Ici is asked by ARTE to produce a series of nature documentaries about how humans and human behaviour are influencing nature and animals. One of the episodes is Quand passant les oiseaux (When the birds go by), a… Read More

The Nashville Declaration, a text strongly condemning homosexuality, is scandalized the Netherlands, the first country in the world to have opened marriage to same-sex couples. But it is signed by about 200 Dutch Protestant leaders. In response, dozens of Protestant churches have announced they want… Read More

After the Dutch news satire television show host Arjen Lubach declared that nuclear energy would be an option to fight CO2 discharges in the Netherlands and the party leader of the liberal party Klaas Dijkhof proposed to build a new Dutch nuclear power plant, a… Read More

In the face of the desertification of the seabed, World Wildlife Fund, the Wageningen Marine Research Centre and other parties are trying to return flat oysters on artificial 3D printed oyster banks in the North Sea. These molluscs would help strengthen the seabed and bring… Read More

In the Netherlands there are six million more bicycles than inhabitants. Nevertheless, many cars clog the densely populated cities. As the problem is likely to worsen over the coming years, the Dutch government now wants employers to pay their employees a kilometre allowance if they… Read More

To fight extreme housing nuisance a Skaeve Huse (Strange Houses) complex, a concept originally developed in Denmark, was built in Rotterdam. The tiny houses are intended for people that cause too much residential nuisance. It is the last resort when no other approach to fight… Read More

A gas extraction company and the Dutch government catch sight of the UN human rights commission. It demands measures from the Dutch state to protect the inhabitants of the Northern province Groningen from increasingly frequent earthquakes caused by the intensive extraction of gas. The Dutch… Read More

The youth program ARTE Junior broadcast They’re your age 3 minute portraits of children all around the world. How do other children around the world live? What is their breakfast like and what is their favourite food? Where do they go to school? What do… Read More

For years the Dutch government has been decreasing the budget for the army. Over the last weeks more and more critics and complaints are passed on to the ministry of defence that there is not enough money anymore to perform the basic military tasks. There… Read More

The drama series ‘If the dykes break’ tells about a contemporary flood in the Netherlands and parts of Flanders. What will be left of the Netherlands if a serious flood will unfold? The drama series has been broadcasted in the Netherlands and in Flanders. ARTE… Read More

The Dutch government decided there will be a new investigation into the violence in Indonesia in the late forties of the last century. Recently it became clear that Dutch soldiers used ‘structural violence’. Not only the actions of the Dutch will be examined, but the… Read More