Up close is not the best way to see the world’s biggest gate. Standing alongside it from one end, where a three-story hinge links to a massive steel lattice, the Maeslant storm surge barrier resembles ...

HOEK VAN HOLLAND, The Netherlands — Up close is not the best way to see the world’s biggest gate. Viewed from one end, where a three-story hinge links to a massive steel lattice, the Maeslant storm ...

When a big storm hits a coastal city like New York or New Orleans, it's often the storm surge that does the most damage — the rising water that comes with low atmospheric pressure. But when the next ...

This is the first installment of a Times-Picayune and Advocate series exploring how the Netherlands’ climate change adaptation strategies could be a model for the Louisiana coast. HOEK VAN HOLLAND, ...

When a big storm hits a coastal city like New York or New Orleans, it's often the storm surge that does the most damage — the rising water that comes with low atmospheric pressure. But when the next ...

HOEK VAN HOLLAND, Netherlands, -- Like two enormous butterfly wings, massive yet delicate, the 700-foot-wide gates of the Maeslant storm-surge barrier sit on either side of the New Waterway, a ...