The Frisian Islands ... belongs to Germany. Because of their unique location, these islands form a mudflat region between the mainland and the North Sea. This is known as the Wadden Sea, an ...

A string of tiny islands plays an outsized role in defending Germany's coast from the wild ... the director of the WWF's Wadden Sea Office in the German town of Husum. "First, the mounds have ...

The Wadden Sea along the coastline of the North Sea is one of Germany’s few remaining large-scale natural ... with an extension to cover the Hallig islands, five small inhabited islands without ...

A Dutch company plans to start drilling for gas in the North Sea, off the coast of the Wadden Sea islands of Schiermonnikoog and Borkum, now that the German regional authority has given its backing to ...

Germany will work with the Dutch exploration and production company, ONE-Dyas, to operate a gas field in the North Sea above Schiermonnikoog and the German Wadden island of Borkum, Dutch ...

A new island ... Germany's North Sea coast. "The fact that in just a few years a new island is formed is very impressive," said Detlef Hansen, who works at the neighbouring Wadden Sea National ...

NORDFRIESLAND, GERMANY—At the Wadden Sea, the wind and the waves are the kind of neighbours that would have you calling the cops: they howl, they trespass and sometimes they let themselves right ...

The ship, carrying more than 8,000 containers, was sailing north of a chain of islands in the Wadden Sea on a route from the Portuguese port of Sines to Bremerhaven, Germany, when it was battered ...