It’s the “floating city” but also the sinking city. In the past century, Venice has subsided as sea levels rise due to ...

Venice, grappling with sinking land and rising sea levels, faces increasing flood threats. An Italian engineer proposes ...

For the first time a system of 78 mobile floodgates has been tested in the Venice lagoon in north-eastern Italy. It has taken some 15 years to construct the barrier. From Pius XII to Benedict XVI ...

It’s the “floating city” but also the sinking city. In the past century, Venice has subsided by around 25 centimeters, or ...

VENICE, Italy — The worst flooding in Venice ... One death was blamed on the flooding, on the barrier island of Pellestrina. A man in his 70s was apparently electrocuted when he tried to start ...

(CNN)-- Venice has suffered its worst flooding in 22 years, leaving some parts of the historic Italian city neck-deep in water, reports said Monday. Water burst the banks of the coastal city's ...

Venice, Italy is known for its remarkable ... due to a $6 billion miracle of modern engineering — the MOSE flood barrier, a series of 78 five-story-high metal barriers strategically placed ...

The Italian city was flooded with more than six feet of water Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her work has ...

Venice, Italy CNN — It’s the “floating city ... is currently spending millions of euros each year raising flood barriers to block exceptionally high tides from entering the lagoon ...

For the first time a system of 78 mobile floodgates has been tested in the Venice lagoon in north-eastern Italy. It has taken some 15 years to construct the barrier. The man expected to be Germany ...

The city's subsidence rate of two millimeters per year, combined with rising sea levels due to climate change, has exacerbated the problem. The MOSE flood barriers, designed to protect Venice from ...