🟢 Not your regular #Venice gondola ride!

🛶 The waters in #Venice's main canal turned fluorescent green on Sunday.

🚨 The Venice prefect has called an emergency meeting to understand what happened and study possible countermeasures

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  • wopazoo [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    update: https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230529-venice-discovers-famed-canal-turns-bright-green-due-to-non-toxic-fluorescein

    Venice discovers non-toxic fluorescein was behind turning canal bright green

    The spectacular transformation of a stretch of Venice's Grand Canal to fluorescent green was due to fluorescein, a non-toxic substance used for testing wastewater networks, local authorities said on Monday.