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Venice is Drowning.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- 60 Minutes
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- 2020s.
- Environmental Science.
- Climate and the Environment.
- Natural disasters.
- Climate change.
- Tides.
- Floods.
- Environmental disasters.
- Venice, Veneto.
- Local Subjects:
- 2020s.
- Environmental Science.
- Climate and the Environment.
- Natural disasters.
- Climate change.
- Tides.
- Floods.
- Environmental disasters.
- Venice, Veneto.
- Genre:
- Interview
- News story
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (13 minutes)
- Other Title:
- Venice Is Drowning
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), 2020.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- A report on Venice, the northeastern Italian city made up of a group of 118 small islands separated by canals and surrounded by water. Due to unprecedented rising sea levels caused by climate change, flooding in Venice has become worse and more frequent; climate scientists warn this should be a global example. This last November, record breaking tides and dangerous winds caused much destruction in the city. Venetians worry their homes and cultural landmarks face increasing risk due to this manmade climate change. Includes interviews with Toto Bergamo Rossi, who is known as the unofficial mayor of Venice; Luigi Brugnaro, mayor of Venice; Pierpaolo Campostrini, who helps manage the Basilica of St. Mark; Fortunato Ortombina, artistic director of La Fenice theater; Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences at Princeton University; Alessandro Soru, lead enigineer of project Moses; and Shaul Bassi, a professor of English literature at Venice's Ca'Foscari University.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed January 16, 2024).
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