Beyond the palaces, an ensemble sings about the workers who built a city on water – and the newcomers who sustain it.
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Beyond the palaces, an ensemble sings about the workers who built a city on water – and the newcomers who sustain it.
![Prince walks his bike across the bridge in Venice to take the bus back to Mestre. [Michela Moscufo/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/IMG_6338-2-1748242541.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
‘Significant change in action’ under way to compensate nations under direct assault from climate chaos, observers say.
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A Venetian artist is determined to continue her family tradition even as her dream of home ownership fades.

Pacific island state Vanuatu – one of the world’s most vulnerable to climate change – has led the UN initiative.

Alfredo Cospito’s hunger strike began last October in protest against a harsh and controversial regime known as 41-bis.
