RARELY was a city so aptly named. By the end of this century, Italy’s City of Water could be facing dangerously high tides almost every day, and costly flood barriers now being built might not be able to protect it.
A study by Laura Carbognin at the Institute of Marine Sciences in Venice and colleagues provides the best estimate yet of how the city will cope with the effects of climate change. The team took forecasts of global sea-level rise from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and factored in the impact of local land subsidence. With the…
