The Historic Danube River Drought Is Getting Weird
Amid an unprecedented summer of extreme heatwaves, drought, and wildfires, several of Europe’s major rivers are drying up. Last week in Bulgaria, the bones of a woolly mammoth turned up. And on Monday, the Romanian navy blew up a rock outcrop to help redirect cooling water to the nation’s only working nuclear reactor.
- ▪Amid an unprecedented summer of extreme heatwaves, drought, and wildfires, several of Europe’s major rivers are drying up.
- ▪Last week in Bulgaria, the bones of a woolly mammoth turned up.
- ▪And on Monday, the Romanian navy blew up a rock outcrop to help redirect cooling water to the nation’s only working nuclear reactor.
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| Publication time | Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:45:41 +0000 |
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Amid an unprecedented summer of extreme heatwaves, drought, and wildfires, several of Europe’s major rivers are drying up. Among them is the Danube, where record-low water levels are exposing long-sunken historical treasures and forcing officials to take drastic action to mitigate impacts to infrastructure and the economy.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000794893","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"earther","SECTION":"earth-science","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"earth-science","TAGS":"climate-change,drought,europe,extreme-heat,rivers","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); Water levels have fallen so…
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