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The Dutch population is expected to continue growing in the coming decades, largely due to immigration. In 2024 the population of the Netherlands is expected to cross the 18 million mark. The 19 million residents milestone will likely follow in 2039. By 2060, the Netherlands will count nearly 19.6 million residents, according to the latest forecast by Statistic Netherlands.

A package of urgent measures to reduce the level of nitrogen emissions and ground contamination was approved during a Tuesday night vote by senators in the Eerste Kamer, the upper house of Dutch parliament. The bill allows for tighter nitrogen regulations on construction projects, the reduction of nitrogen emissions from livestock, and the accelerated improvement and restoration of Natura 2000 nature sites.

Almost one in five samples of fruit and veg in Dutch shops contains remnants of hormone disrupting chemicals despite EC rules, an investigation by food watchdog NVWA has found. 

A l'heure où le réchauffement climatique complique la lutte contre les risques d'inondations aux Pays-Bas, dont environ un tiers de la surface se trouve en dessous du niveau de l'eau.

Aux Pays-Bas, une enseigne de supermarché propose désormais à ses clients des "caisses tranquilles" pour ceux qui ont le temps.

In 2018, Dutch cocoa bean imports stood at 1.1 billion kg, more than half of which came from Ivory Coast. This makes the Netherlands the largest importer of cocoa beans in the world

The number of cows, bulls and calves in the Netherlands decreased by 3 percent this year to 3.8 million, Statistics Netherlands reported on Friday based on the provisional figures from the Agricultural Census. 

Les Pays-Bas s’offrent actuellement une campagne de promotion autour de leur veau « de tradition européenne », qui cible principalement les marchés canadien, américain et japonais où une forte préférence pour la viande bovine a été constatée, particulièrement pour le veau. 

The Climate Now programme looked at the different ways the city of Rotterdam combats Climate Change. It looks at how the city deals with the rise of sea levels, how a roof garden is helping to store water and grow its own produce and how a floating farm works.

The Interceptor is a vessel which trawls rivers collecting plastic waste. The solar-powered boat catches the rubbish before it reaches the ocean.

According to the Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index (MMGPI), the Netherlands has yet again come out on top to take the title of the best pension system in the world.

Protesting farmers will not block supermarkets' distribution centers on Wednesday, the lawyer representing action group Farmers Defense Force (FDF) promised in court on Monday in summary proceedings filed by supermarket chains' organization CBL. According to the lawyer, the FDF never planned to block distribution centers and cause supermarkets to have empty shelves the week before Christmas, NOS reports.

The low-lying country has centuries of experience managing water. Now climate change is threatening to flood it completely.

Rotterdam council wants to slash the number of fast food outlets in the city as part of a package of measures to combat child and adult obesity and improve the general health of its residents. 

Dans la ville de Zwolle aux Pays-Bas, un incubateur lauréat d'un prix européen et axé sur le développement durable fait pousser des start-up en encourageant des dirigeants d'entreprise à développer l'activité dont ils rêvent dans les bioplastiques.

During the 2019 Smart City Expo in Barcelona, the City of Rotterdam and the developer, Lightwell, launched the CENT-R, a multifunctional and modular unit that is set to become the standard platform for all smart city applications in the Netherlands’ second largest city.  

The government has given the green light to a new system of food labeling which it hopes will help consumers make ‘healthy choices’ when it comes to buying food. 

Décryptage de l’échec d’une ferme urbaine lancée en Hollande en 2016.Qui ne signe toutefois pas l’échec de l’agriculture urbaine.

The measures the government announced on Wednesday to reduce nitrogen-based pollution and cope with the impact of PFAS contamination in soil and sludge have met with mixed reactions, public broadcaster NOS reports.

All companies in the Netherlands that hatch chickens for meat are guilty of animal abuse, according to a not-yet-published ruling from the Ministry of Agriculture that the Volkskrant has in its possession. After hatching, nearly 500 million chicks per year run the risk of being left without food and water for an unnecessarily long time. The hatcheries have five years to rectify this, according to the newspaper. This decision follows a lengthy court procedure filed by animal welfare organization Wakker Dier in 2013.