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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Deborah Cole in Berlin and agencies

Lost income, energy fears and a woolly mammoth: what Europe’s dried-up rivers have yielded

Stone cairns line the exposed Danube riverbed with the Hungarian Parliament Building across the water
The dried-up Danube in Budapest, Hungary. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Baking temperatures and drought across large swathes of central and eastern Europe have driven water levels on the Danube and Rhine rivers to record lows in some areas, hitting shipping, energy production and tourism hard.

Extreme conditions aggravated by the climate emergency left Europe’s waterways from the Netherlands to the Black Sea parched, triggering compounding crises.

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