It’s make or break time for Venice tourism, unless it's already too late. At peril is everything that makes Venice a place of “outstanding universal value,” Unesco’s criterion for a World Heritage Site. See Venice...
Tonnage is a measure of the size or cargo carrying capacity of a ship. The term derives from the taxation paid on tuns or casks of wine, and was later used in reference to the...
A boat is a watercraft of any size designed to float or plane, to provide passage across water. Usually this water will be inland or in protected coastal areas. However, boats such as the whaleboat...
The Adriatic Sea, is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula and the Apennine Mountains from the Dinaric Alps and adjacent ranges. The Adriatic is the northernmost arm of the...
Italy Listen/ˈɪtəli/, officially the Italian Republic, is a unitary parliamentary republic in Southern Europe. To the north, it borders France, Switzerland, Austria, and Slovenia along the Alps. To the south, it consists of the entirety...
Giudecca is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy. It is part of the sestiere of Dorsoduro. It is a locality of the comune of Venice....
A flood is an overflow of water that submerges or "drowns" land. The European Union (EU) Floods Directive defines a flood as a covering by water of land not normally covered by water. In the...
Global warming is the rise in the average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans since the late 19th century and its projected continuation. Since the early 20th century, Earth's mean surface temperature has increased by...
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