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| The Beans arriving to the Gallerie dell'Academia |
Today, The Beans have continued visiting Venice. The city is under the effects of the climate change and its canals are emptied but the city is as beautiful as always. The family has decided to visit the Gallerie dell'Accademia to contemplate incredible art works like The Vitruvian Man of Leonardo da Vinci.
After that visit, The Beans have tasted fantastic Venetian cookies and have drunk the local coffee while they have been revising some new English grammar like Need/Needn't and the Past Simple with regular verbs.
More information: Need / Needn't & Past Simple
The Grandma, who is in the edge of a depression because she doesn't find Corto, has been reading an interesting post that Daisy Dune wrote in the Daily Mail in March 2017. The author said that:
It may be known as 'The Floating City', but experts have warned that Venice could sink in as little as 100 years thanks to climate change. They say that Venice and much of Italy's Adriatic coastline is at risk of disappearing all together as sea levels continue to rise.
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| The Vetruvian Man in the Gallerie |
The Mediterranean will rise by up 140cm before 2100, according to scientists from Italy and France. In comparison, the sea level has risen by just 30cm in the last 1,000 years.
The researchers, from Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, said the acceleration in sea level rise can be explained by global warming, according to The Local. To understand how sea levels have changed, the scientists studied millstone quarries along the Mediterranean coastline.
'The coast of the Mediterranean provides several remnants of ancient coastal quarries, which are now useful to study sea level change occurring during the last millennia,' the scientists said in a research paper.
'Millstones quarries were exploited with same quarrying techniques from rocks like beachrocks, sandstones or similar lithologies, were shaped to be suitable to grind olives, seeds and wheat, to produce oil and flour, or to break apart soft rocks.' Millstones are circular stones that were mined to grind grain in the Stone Age between 4,000 to 2,500 BC.
The scientists studied the positioning of the stone quarries along the coastline to understand how sea levels have changed over the last millennium. They then used modelling to predict how fast sea levels will rise in the future. The researchers found that 33 areas across Italy are at a high risk of disappearing under the sea.
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| Old memories of The Grandma in Sant Boi |
The regions at risk include Fiumicino in Lazio, the Versilia in Tuscany, land around the Po, Fondi, Sele, and Volturno rivers, and coastal areas around Catania, Cagliari and Oristano.
The research was funded by ENEA, the Italian National agency for new technologies, Energy and sustainable economic development.
After reading this post, The Grandma has talked about other important zones to protect like Delta del Llobregat, els Aiguamolls de l'Empordà and Delta de l'Ebre, special zones which can be affected by the climate change in a closer future.
We must protect our planet, we must respect all the species and work hard for their conservation.
More information: National Geographic
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