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Venice Faced with Drastic Decisions as Rising Seas Set to Outpace Defences
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Upgrading the islands, belting the city, relocating it close the lagoon... In a study, experts on global warming review the four projects that could save the city of Doges from rising water.
Can Venice be saved from being swallowed by the sea? A new study, published on April 16 in the journal Scientific Reports, examined several adaptation scenarios in the face of the inevitable rise in sea levels. Conducted by fifteen climatologists, geographers, engineers, and economists, this publication explores four options, depending on the level of submersion: keeping the lagoon open, isolating the city with dikes, transforming the lagoon int…
Venice faced with drastic decisions as rising seas set to outpace defences
Italian canal city could be forced to consider relocate amid projected rise of sea levels. Venice has long been threatened by flooding but scientists now warn that the situation is entering a new and more dangerous phase - one for which no single solution exists, and which may ultimately force consideration of the unthinkable: relocating the city itself. According to a paper published in the journal Scientific Reports (Nature), the Venetian lago…
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