SINGAPORE — When Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong devoted a big part of his National Day Rally speech on Aug 18 to climate change, many listening may have encountered an unfamiliar word — “polders”. In ...

As a civilisation originating from rivers, China possesses one of the world’s largest water resources and has a long history of water management. It is particularly the case in the Yangtze River Delta ...

DELFT/NIJMEGEN, Netherlands: “If I show you around, you won’t be aware that you are in a polder area,” said Tjitte Nauta from Dutch research institute Deltares. Turning to me, he continued: “Where you ...

Innovative climate adaptation initiative is a safe, natural and cheaper way to protect coastal communities Allowing low and high tide to return to a so-called ‘transitional polder' between two dikes ...

Between 2013 and 2021, the governments of Bangladesh and the Netherlands spent in excess of Tk800 crore under a project called the Blue Gold Program, aiming at establishing and empowering community ...

Where waves once moved, now lie fields, forests, and towns — a geometry of straight lines and quiet order drawn across what was once open water. The land feels different from the rest of the country.

Polders are some of the oldest landscapes on our planet that have been continuously managed by humans, but they are disappearing. Researchers argue that polders are an important part of China’s water ...