Floods as war weapons

Tuesday, June 9, 2015 - 11:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

From 1500 until 2000, about a third of floods in southwestern Netherlands were deliberately caused by humans during wartimes, new research shows. Some of these inundations resulted in significant changes to the landscape, being as damaging as floods caused by heavy rainfall or storm surges.

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