Climate Change Felt Like a Faraway Problem in Europe Until Its Great Rivers Started Turning into Sandbars Full of Shipwrecks
For years, climate change registered in Europe as something happening elsewhere—to distant coastlines, faraway forests, other people’s summers. This year the continent’s great rivers, the arteries its economy was built around, ran too low to carry the traffic they always had. The Danube fell to just nine inches deep at one measuring point in Budapest,…
