Venice, Italy Venice is sinking at a rate of 0.08 inches every year. Italy began building a flood barrier consisting of 78 gates across its three inlets in 2003. It's known as Mose. The barrier ...

For three decades, a single idea on how to safeguard Venice and its lagoon from sinking beneath the sea has held sway: a wall of hinged barriers at ... see how the mobile gates would work.

researchers found that 35 buildings along the coasts of Miami's barrier islands have sunk into the ground by 2 to 8 centimeters between 2016 and 2023. This sinking phenomenon, called subsidence ...

People are taking action to protect Venice from sinking. They’ve put up barriers all around the city ... is a sophisticated system of mobile gates designed to safeguard Venice and the Venetian ...