BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Unusually low water levels on the Danube river in Hungary are affecting shipping, agriculture, and local ...

As the continent faces a severe drought, companies have had to use buses to transport passengers along parts of the Rhine and the Danube, where water levels have become too low for riverboats.

Hundreds of sunken German warships are scattered across the Danube River, and they can pose dangers to current river traffic and shipping when water levels fall too low, according to Reuters.

Long-awaited rainfall set in on Monday, which is expected to raise Danube levels to around three metres at Mohacs by the weekend, with the river likely to submerge the shipwrecks again.

River cruises are “more about the experience off the ship than on,” a travel journalist says. Viking and American Cruise Lines operate some in the United States.

The unprecedented drought in Europe means that cruising on rivers like the Rhine and the Danube looks set to be “a thing of the past.” As water levels drop, more and more tourist destinations ...

Falling water levels in the Danube River during a recent heat wave across Europe have revealed more wrecks from a Nazi German flotilla of warships that were deliberately sunk there in the last ...

Low Water Levels Reveal Sunken Nazi Ships Full of Unexploded Munitions in the Danube River Due to a drought in Eastern Europe, the scuttled German vessels are reemerging 80 years after they ...

Europe's worst drought in years has pushed the mighty river Danube to one of its lowest levels in almost a century, exposing the hulks of dozens of explosives-laden German warships sunk during ...

As Europe continues to experience a record heat wave that one top scientist said could signal its worst drought in 500 years, receding water levels along the continent's massive Danube River have ...

Dozens Of Sunken WWII German Ships Resurface Along Danube River As Water Levels Hit Record Low As Europe continues to experience a record heat wave that one top scientist said could signal its ...