A Photographic Tour - Europe's Famous Rivers As You've Never Seen Them Before, Summer 2022 Edition

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Flowing from the Swiss Alps, carving much of the Franco-German border, defining the German Rhineland and careering into the Netherlands before reaching the North Sea, the Rhine is a formative part of Europe.

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House boats perch on a drying side channel of the Waal River in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 7 August.PIROSCHKA VAN DE WOUW/REUTERS

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The River Thames recedes during the heatwave in London, 19 July.HENRY NICHOLLS/REUTERS

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The Loire is so low it can be crossed on foot where it used to meet the Allier River at le Bec d’Allier, Cuffy, 9 August.Avenet Pascal/ABACA/Reuters

With an early heatwave in June and an unusually hot and dry month of May, the bed of the Loire has reached a lower level than usual. Water levels are so low that the river can be crossed on foot in certain places.

Two-thirds of the country is at a crisis level for drought. Four recent heatwaves have triggered weeks of wildfires and reduced the mighty Loire to a stream in some stretches.

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https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/08/11/in-pictures-europes-mighty-rivers-are-drying-up-in-the-climate-driven-drought

[Brenda]

1. So many shocking photos like this

coming in from around the world yet the climate deniers and pseudo-deniers are still out in force. The pseudo-deniers are the ones who still think we have 100 years to engineer our way out of this with magically appearing cash and technology.