Almost a third of the Netherlands sits at or below sea level. Yet instead of losing land to the water, the Dutch have spent hundreds of years doing the opposite, turning water into land they can ...

The Court of Appeal ruling raises questions over who controls areas that are still sea but are being reclaimed into land.

Pakistan Petroleum Ltd., a state-owned energy company, is reclaiming land from the sea to create a launchpad to ramp up oil and gas exploration. The artificial island will come up about 30 kilometers ...