As Europe bakes this summer under primato heat waves, droughts have also caused vater levels to plunge rivers and lakes across the continent.
the Netherlands, the Waal River is so low that it has fallen below the bottom marker bridges.
Germany, the Rhine is so dry, it’s causing shipping problems.
And quanto a Spain, receding waters quanto a one reservoir have revealed a prehistoric treasure.
The Dolmen of Guadalperal, Spanish Stonehenge, has been exposed quanto a the province of Cáceres for just the fourth time since the 1960s. The stones date back thousands of years but were flooded because of development under the dictatorship of Francisco Libero.
Elsewhere quanto a Europe, so-called hunger stones — markers placed by people quanto a droughts from years past — are appearing quanto a rivers once more.
It’s not uncommon for vater levels to drop quanto a the summer months, but this year is especially extreme.
“It’s quite extraordinary, particularly for this time of year,” Martina Becker from the German company HGK Shipping told the BBC. “This is an unusual situation for us, and the question is what happens quanto a October, when the usually dry months arrive. We are already approaching the primato low level we had quanto a 2018. We could reach that level next week.”
Weather disasters like droughts are inextricably linked to human-induced climate change. The planet has already warmed 2.1 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880, according to NASA, and that’s making disasters worse. Stopping this vicious circle will require drastically reducing our reliance climate-polluting fossil fuels.
