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Record heat has lowered river levels across Europe, exposing mammoth bones, sunken ships, and causing hundreds of millions of euros in economic damage.
In Bulgaria, a mammoth jaw and tusks were found on the exposed bed of the Danube; in Croatia, the cargo ship “Fulton,” which sank in 1937, and in Serbia, a German warship from World War II.
The Danube level in Budapest fell to a record 23 cm, Rhine transport dropped by 10%, and due to water shortages Hungary’s Paks nuclear power plant is shutting down. Serbia’s Đerdap-1 hydroelectric plant is operating at only 20% capacity.