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Published online 15 January 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040112-8
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Saving Venice
Plans have been resurrected to raise Venice above the encroaching sea.
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Venice could be saved from sinking into the sea by using oil-industry technology to pump fluid underneath the city, says a team of geomechanical engineers.
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