BEIJING–More than 100 people have died in floods and landslides in China, and tens of thousands have fled their homes in the east, where dikes are in danger of being breached by a swollen river.

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Firefighters and volunteers worked to reinforce dikes against rising floodwaters in northern and eastern Germany as heavy rains falling on already soaked ground pushed ...

The hydraulic performance and flow dynamics of spur dikes have emerged as a critical area of research within river engineering. Spur dikes—protruding structures extending from riverbanks—are ...

Dikes and dams Rivers are not naturally static bodies of water. A river can fluctuate in size and even shift direction depending on the climate, resulting in floods to the land next to it.

Rain swamps N.S., dikes burst Fast moving waters swamped two Nova Scotia rivers on Monday as several dikes gave way, leading to flooding that caught some residents in the Truro area by surprise.

Towns reinforce dikes as heavy rains send rivers over their banks in Germany and the NetherlandsBack to video The city of Braunschweig in Lower Saxony deployed an artificial dike — a long tube ...