Geography
How Land Reclamation Projects Alter Coastal Geographies
Quick fact
About 25% of the world's coastlines have been modified by land reclamation, and projects like Dubai's Palm Jumeirah were built from 94 million cubic meters of sand.
Why this is interesting
From the sky, the coastlines of Singapore, Dubai, and the Netherlands look dramatically different from their historical maps—vast new land has appeared where water once flowed. How do we simply add land to the ocean?