I’d come to the northern coast of the Netherlands to partake in this quintessential Dutch pastime, called wadlopen, or hiking the floor of the Wadden Sea.Tracing about 500 kilometers along the ...

This is my second trip with Boat Bike Tours, a Netherlands-based operator with decades of experience combining biking with ...

In the Netherlands, the Wadden Sea is accessible via the Frisian Islands, low-lying landmarks that form a natural barrier between the mainland and the North Sea.

Smith Island in Maryland feels like the Wadden Islands in the Netherlands, with car-free streets, fresh seafood, and water ...

The Wadden Sea risks losing its status as a world heritage site if the Netherlands continues to extract salt and gas off the north coast, Unesco has warned. The organisation reiterated its concerns ...

After breakfast — a traditional spread that included fried herring and cow’s-milk cheese — I drove about an hour back to Wadden Sea National Park on the western coast.

A fire that broke out on the car-carrying cargo ship Fremantle Highway just before midnight Tuesday continued to burn Thursday morning, according to the Netherlands’ coast guard.

In 2024, researchers at Wageningen University in the Netherlands counted around 24,000 seals across the Wadden Sea. Most are pups who get separated from their mother, known as howlers for their ...

Typically undertaken on the north coast, where the Wadden Sea washes between the mainland and the Frisian Islands, it’s a fun way to explore the fauna and flora revealed at low tide.

Ameland is near the Wadden Sea, a UNESCO World Heritage site off Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands that the United Nations describes as the largest unbroken system of intertidal sand and mud ...

The Netherlands is better known for canals, dikes and tropical Dutch Caribbean Islands like Bonaire and Curaçao than the sandspun isles along the country’s North Sea coast.

The Wadden Sea – an area of islands, sea and mud flats stretching from the Netherlands to Denmark – won inclusion on Unesco’s list of world heritage sites in 2009. A new Unesco investigation into the ...