Last month, a 2,500-passenger ship entered the Venetian Lagoon — the first since the pandemic began — reanimating the debate on the negative effects of mass tourism.
The lagoon water level being at its seasonal highest this time of year, as the Gulf Stream slows, pushing more ocean into inlets, and as the world warms.
Home to nearly 300,000 people, the West African city is already seeing houses destroyed, streets flooded, and crops killed by encroaching saltwater due to climate change.
