in the worst-case scenario, up to 226 square kilometres of the lagoon may be flooded with sea levels surging by 3.47 metres ...

THESE curious experiments are products of the Green Propulsion Laboratory in Venice, Italy: a publicly owned ... which handles the waste and water supply for around a million residents and 50 ...

while rain lashing the rest of Italy prompted warnings in Florence and Pisa. Venice's latest “acqua alta”, or high water, hit 150cm on Sunday, lower than Tuesday's 187cm - the highest level in ...