There was an interesting article in National Geographic not so many years ago which, on one hand, was pushing global warming with "Venice is about to become a victim!" theme while on the other, outlined the long history of the city with its centuries old ebb and flow of reclaiming land from the oceans and marshlands when the city prospered to letting nature reclaim parts of the city when it did not.
Makes one wonder how someone able to document that long historical perspective can also shill for the Chicken Littles who claim global warming is a recent man-made crisis.
Sorry, but “Venice” usually refers to the city, not its various possessions, which at different times have been scattered over much of the eastern Med coastlines and islands and northern Italy.