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People Blame Politics As Europe Suffers The Most Brutal Drought In Years: “But What About Those Immigrants?”

It’s been a hot European summer. But it’s not just the record-breaking heat waves or devastating wildfires that have everyone sweating. Magnified by the climate crisis, the high temperatures and lack of rain have caused water levels to plunge across Europe, crippling waterways, wreaking havoc on power production and shipping,…

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Romania shuts its last nuclear reactor as drought-hit Danube river drops to record low

Cernavoda shutdown poses immediate problems for Moldova, which relies on Romanian power to cover its own electricity shortages

The Guardian - AU

Danube River reveals Nazi warships hidden underwater for 80 years: Record-low water levels are exposing the World War II wrecks near Serbia

The Danube River has fallen to exceptionally low levels this summer, exposing the remains of Nazi-era warships that have spent more than eight decades beneath its waters near Prahovo, Serbia. The wrecks are part of a much larger graveyard of vessels deliberately sunk in 1944 as German forces retreated from…

The Times of India

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Romania shuts off second reactor at Cernavodă NPP amid low water levels on Danube

Nearly two-thirds of the Danube has seen flow rates that are the lowest on record for a month of July in 34 years, according to an analysis published on Monday by the European climate change observatory, Copernicus.

Euronews

Romania begins shutdown of nuclear plant's 2nd reactor amid low water levels on Danube River

Romania has begun a controlled shutdown of the second reactor at the Cernavoda nuclear power plant

The Independent UK

Remains of two Wehrmacht soldiers found in Danube: one served in Waffen-SS

A Wehrmacht motorbike is recovered from the Danube; underneath are the remains of two German soldiers with ID tags, one likely Waffen-SS. Experts now study the bones: how old were they and did they drive over a mine?

Euronews

France Imposes Water Restrictions Across 70% of Country as Europe's Drought Crisis Deepens

France imposes water restrictions as a severe drought affects 70% of the country, revealing Nazi shipwrecks in the Danube due to record low water levels amidst a European heatwave.

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Water levels across the Balkans have fallen to record lows

Record-low water levels are disrupting navigation on Croatia’s Danube and Drava rivers.

Euronews

Historic drought: rivers reveal hunger stones, warships and mammoth remains

Water levels across Europe have plunged to record lows due to the ongoing drought, exposing a host of long-hidden relics; here is a selection.

Euronews

Party in the dry Danube riverbed: many call it a natural disaster

Just as musicians kept playing on the Titanic while the ship went down, in Budapest, the exposed bed of the shrinking Danube River has become a party spot.

Euronews

Budapest’s low Danube exposed two German soldiers and a DKW military motorcycle; mud mixed with gas oil preserved identity discs after around 80 years

Unusually low water levels in Budapest’s Danube River have exposed Second World War remains hidden for around 80 years. Recovery teams found the bodies of two Wehrmacht soldiers, their well-preserved identity discs, a German military motorbike, anti-tank mines and other wartime objects near Batthyány Square. The finds could help identify…

The Times of India

Nazi shipwrecks emerge from the depths as Europe’s Danube dries up

Unexploded ordnance and a military motorcycle also recovered following record heat and drought conditions

The Guardian - UK

Mystery solved: story of Wehrmacht motorbike found in the Danube

Record low water on the Danube has revealed in Budapest a perfectly preserved Wehrmacht DKW NZ 350-1 motorbike from WWII. Euronews investigates its role, its factory origins, when it may have sunk, and whether the dead nearby were its riders.

Euronews

Gigantic WW2 bomb detonated in Slovakia after surfacing in Danube River

The ‘largest bomb ever found’ in the country of Slovakia has been detonated after it surfaced in the drought-hit Danube River , according to NewsNow TASR . A team comprising of experts from the Nitra region’s police, Bratislava’s Police Corps' Criminalistics and Forensic Institute, and personnel from the Fire and…

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Europe's Ongoing Drought Just Unearthed a WWII Motorcycle Left In a River

Much of Europe's ongoing climate change-induced drought has caused the famous Danube River to nearly dry up, unearthing lost treasures like a World War II motorcycle that had sunk into its depths.

Euronews

Danube: Wehrmacht soldiers and WWII motorbike recovered after 80 years

The Danube is at such a low level that Second World War relics are resurfacing in Budapest: alongside a motorbike, the bodies of two soldiers have been recovered.

The Independent UK

Romania rushes to sink 4 barges in the Danube to keep a nuclear power plant's second reactor running

Romania is racing to sink four barges into the Danube River to redirect water toward a nuclear power plant

Euronews

Record-low Danube exposes sandbanks, strands boats in Serbia

Record-low Danube water levels in northern Serbia expose sandbanks, dry marinas and leave cargo vessels stranded along the river.

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Euronews

Magyar optimistic about Paks nuclear power station restart as Danube water levels rise

According to Péter Magyar, the water level has already climbed several centimetres above the critical threshold.

The Independent UK

Video: Sunken Nazi ships revealed as Danube runs dry

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Watch: Hidden WWII Nazi warships resurface as Danube hits 30-year low

Sunken Nazi warships have emerged from the Danube as water levels drop during Europe’s scorching heatwave.

The Guardian - UK

Europe’s rivers are running dry, and the knock-on effects are disastrous

Droughts that were once a century now happen every year, and the impact on wildlife, industrial output and culture itself is catastrophic, says Yiannis Baboulias, a Greek writer based in London

The Guardian - UK

Spain says 70,000 out of 72,000 migrants that entered Ceuta in mass border crossing have returned to Morocco – as it happened

Minister tells reporters least 75 people died after EU ministers meet to discuss response to the crisis

Euronews

Record low Danube levels prompt central European governments to take emergency action

It comes amid soaring temperatures across Europe, as the continent grapples with yet another heatwave.

The Independent UK

Romanian navy carries out Danube controlled explosions to help cool nuclear power plant

Romania’s naval forces carried out controlled explosions on the drought-hit Danube River to divert water flow toward the Cernavoda nuclear power plant.

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