Record European heat dries major rivers, disrupting shipping and industry

River cruise passengers are being evacuated due to low water levels; broader economic disruption affects workers in shipping and manufacturing sectors.

For centuries, Europe's great rivers have carried the weight of civilization—its coal, its grain, its travelers—and now, under a heat that has broken every record in memory, those rivers are retreating from their own banks. The Rhine, Germany's industrial lifeline, has fallen so low that the ships meant to move its economy sit stranded in channels that no longer hold enough water to float them. This is not merely a weather event but a reckoning: three decades of deferred infrastructure reform and a climate shifting faster than institutions have been willing to acknowledge are converging in a s

Record European heat dries major rivers, disrupting shipping and industry

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