HOW TACKY TOURISM AND RISING SEA LEVELS THREATEN TO SINK VENICE

▶ About 1,000 residents have been leaving every year with more complaining recent floods are the final straw in a city that appears to be losing its soul

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Two weeks after high tides and fierce winds produced the worst flooding in Venice in more than half a century, sirens sound at about 6.30am to warn the fragile lagoon city’s weary residents that “acqua alta” (high water) is arriving again. Less than...

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