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Added on the 22/02/2023 17:47:51 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Gondolas lay beached along a series of Venice's famed canals this week, as low tides and a lack of rain left would-be punters high and dry. Tourists out on the deeper, busier canals sailed passed exposed foundations of ancient palazzos in the UNESCO World Heritage Site, while in shallower ones, forlorn boats sat on silty mud flats.
The water in the Venice canals is becoming clearer as the city experiences a drop in tourism and reduction in canal traffic due to the health security measures imposed across Italy to fight the spread of the coronavirus.
The future of Italian risotto in the Po Valley is in peril as paddy fields dry up and turn salty amid a historic drought.
In South Africa, the Eastern Cape province is seeing repeated droughts since 2016.
London, Sep 23 (EFE) .- (Camera: Clàudia Sacrest) British oil company BP reported this Thursday that it has closed "temporarily" some service stations in the United Kingdom due to the lack of supply of both gasoline as diesel, due to the crisis in the British transport sector.FOTOAGE FROM A GAS STATION OF BRITISH PETROLEUM BP IN LONDON.