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Venice's tourist tax trial earned the lagoon city €2.2 million, so why is it being branded a 'failure'? “The ticket is a failure, as demonstrated by city data,” says Giovanni Andrea Martini, an opposition city council member. The daytripper fee drew many opponents over the years it took the city to get it up and running. After years of delays, some due to Covid, visitors have been charged €5 on 29 days this year, mostly weekends and holidays. Authorities have said the levy will continue and could be doubled for 2025, bringing it up to €10. Did the tax help to combat overtourism?Over the weeken...
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The weather in Europe this July is, effectively, a tale of two halves. In the north of the continent, temperatures have been far below average, with significantly more rain than normal, while the south is battling heat waves and wildfires. In Belgium alone, June marked the ninth month in a row with more rain than usual - a new record for the country, the worst for 119 years. Mid-June saw a month's worth of rain fall in just one week which led to floods in several regions. It was also a far less sunny month than an ordinary June, a sentiment shared across much of the rest of northern Europe, wh...
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Austria and Switzerland are planning to invest €2.1 billion into flood protection on the Rhine river. An agreement was signed by both countries in May and has now been unanimously approved by the Austrian parliament. It is still awaiting approval from the Swiss government and could be subject to a referendum. The two countries will split the cost of the project equally with the Austrian federal government expecting total costs of around €1.1 billion by 2052. 21 minutes to evacuate: Experts predict Mediterranean tsunami with 100% probability‘We didn’t dare to dream’: Hope as Scottish wildcat ki...
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The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC) is warning with 100 per cent certainty that a tsunami measuring over one metre will hit the Mediterranean in the next 30 years. Spanish newspaper La Razon reports that the danger zone is the Averroes fault beneath the Alboran Sea - roughly halfway between the Málaga coast and north Africa. An earthquake here could cause six-metre waves, which would reach Spain in as little as 21 minutes. In a best-case scenario, coastal residents would still only have 35 minutes to flee inland. Just how deadly would a Mediterranean tsunami be?There...
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After extreme weather events in Switzerland that have left at least four people dead, the Alpine country might have become further imperilled by natural disasters, a member of its government said. “Are we going to experience one catastrophe after another every summer? Or is this an exception? Nobody knows. But certainly, the accumulation of such events worries us and shows how vulnerable we are,” Swiss Federal Council member Ignazio Cassis said on Sunday. At least three people were killed in a landslide in Maggia Valley, according to Swiss public broadcaster SRF, as local police found the body...
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After heavy rainfall earlier this week caused severe flooding in Italy, the southern European country is now bracing for the return of high temperatures in what has been an extreme weather rollercoaster. The regions worst affected were Emilia Romagna, Liguria, southern Piedmont, Tuscany, Umbria and Marche. On Tuesday, streets and underpasses were flooded in Pistoia, northern Tuscany, while fire teams went out in dinghies around Parma to rescue stranded motorists. River levels around Modena and Piacenza were on red alert, and heavy snow cut off mountain refuges in Piedmont. The weather is impro...
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Three people were missing on Saturday after massive thunderstorms and rainfall in southeastern Switzerland caused a landslide, authorities said. One woman was pulled out alive after being buried by the landslide in the Alpine valley of Misox in Graubünden. A rescue operation for the three others is ongoing. The rockslide hit a group of houses in the municipality of Lostallo. Rescuers have been searching all day Saturday with excavators and specially-trained search dogs. William Kloter from the Swiss police, who is heading the rescue operations, told local media that he was hoping to find the t...
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New research by Italian scientists estimates that parts of Venice will be submerged by 2150. The study was carried out by experts at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) and analysed data on tide level rise. Venice has been battling increasingly frequent flooding for decades. There is now a system of flood barriers in place in its lagoon, a shallow, 550 km² enclosed bay in the northern Adriatic Sea that surrounds Venice and its islands. But these won’t be enough to protect the city from continual sinking and sea level rise. Venice will be underwater by 2150A team of scie...
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Three fire engines and a helicopter were deployed for Wednesday's rescue. The driver, who had mobility issues, was safely airlifted and appeared to be unharmed. Torrential rain caused chaos, flooding homes and streets and prompting around 400 emergency calls. The State Meteorological Agency - AEMET in the region announced that in Murcia, more rain fell in about twenty minutes than the average for the entire summer (June, July, and August). Specifically, 43.8 litres per square metre were recorded, with 32.8 litres falling in just 10 minutes. This amount is close to the 40.6 litres per square me...
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Dangerous flooding from a tropical disturbance inundated much of southern Florida, blocking roads, floating vehicles and delaying travellers.
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