VENICE, Italy -- Venice was hit Sunday by a record third exceptional tide in the same week while other parts of Italy struggled with a series of weather woes, from rain-swollen rivers to high winds to ...

Urban areas worldwide are enduring a quiet crisis, subsidence, or settlement of land under them. Poured forward by human activities such as groundwater pumping and natural processes like crustal ...

The very thought of cities sinking, and might go underwater in a span of some years, is a very dreadful thought. Yet, reality can’t be ignored. In this context, Venice is the first place to pop in ...