Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Dutch Seek Islands to Combat Rising Sea Threat

Dutch water industry experts on Monday backed proposals to build several off-shore islands to protect the nation's coast, much of which lies below sea-level, from rising seas caused by global warming.

Dutch had completed work on a cluster of artificial islands off the coast of Dubai in the shape of the world's continents which used 320 million cubic meters of sand, equal to a 2-metre-wide, 4-metre-high wall stretching around the world.

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