According to Giovanni Cecconi, an engineer from the Università Ca' Foscari in Venice, the island's stability is a byproduct of the MOSE flood barrier which has protected the city since 2020.

For the first time a system of 78 mobile floodgates has been tested in the Venice lagoon in north-eastern Italy. It has taken some 15 years to construct the barrier. A fire at a waste disposal ...

Police in Italy have released video from the scene of a fatal bus crash near the city of Venice. The bus went through a barrier on a flyover and landed near train tracks below. The causes of the ...

In 2003, Italy began building a massive flood barrier designed to isolate the Venetian Lagoon, the enclosed bay where Venice is located. The project, known as Mose, is one of the largest civil ...

But what if they all washed away? Barrier islands, which cover a majority of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, protect coastal infrastructure, beach towns, and ecosystems—such as marshes ...