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A view of Gerola Bridge as the Po River's water level runs low amid high drought severity in Mezzana Bigli, Italy, on Aug. 6
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Aug 10, 2026
Italy¡¯s record-low Po River forces farmers to weigh crop switch
The river¡¯s climate change-fueled violent swings between flood and drought is also forcing industries to compete for a resource they once took for granted.
Danube cruise ships moored in Bratislava, on Tuesday. The river level is too low to go back up to Vienna or down to Budapest, the authorities said.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Aug 6, 2026
As the Danube hits record lows, every centimeter of river counts
With its water level at a record low, the shrunken Danube is disrupting trade and tourist cruises and making locals along its banks confront the impact of climate change.
A former eel fishing boat covered in mud sits at the banks of the river Rhine as the water levels fall near Neuss, Germany, on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 6, 2026
Low water levels on Germany¡¯s Rhine amid heat and drought threaten economic blow
Shallow water is imposing tighter limits on how much ship cargo can float down the river ¡ª sending prices up for riverboat freight and heaping pressure on the government to act.
Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar during a news conference at the Paks Nuclear Power Plant in Paks, Hungary, on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 3, 2026
Hungarian nuclear plant shuts down as heat and drought dry out Danube
Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar said the country faces a critical five days as ?its ?sole nuclear power plant is halted for the first time in over four decades.
People walk on the dried-out Danube riverbed near downtown Budapest on Thursday.
WORLD
Aug 2, 2026
Europe¡¯s key rivers are drying up as extreme heat impact widens
Rhine and Danube levels have dwindled over an unusually hot and dry summer, with repeated bouts of high-pressure blocking moisture-bearing clouds from replenishing watersheds.
Temporary pipes divert sewage into the C&O Canal in order to repair the Potomac Interceptor, a six-foot-wide wastewater pipe that collapsed in January, dumping hundreds of millions of gallons of sewage into the Potomac River, in Cabin John, Maryland, on Wednesday.
WORLD
Feb 19, 2026
Washington mayor asks Trump for disaster declaration over Potomac spill
After part of a sewer line failed in Maryland¡¯s Montgomery County on Jan. 19, some 250 million gallons of untreated sewage flowed into the Potomac over the next several days.
A stranded narrowboat is winched from a collapsed canal in Whitchurch, England, on Jan. 15.
WORLD
Feb 11, 2026
U.K.¡¯s crumbling canals threatened with collapse
The sight starkly illustrated an ongoing battle to maintain the U.K.¡¯s historic, yet deteriorating, waterways.
A man walks past a drilling machine damaged by protesters opposing the proposed 11,500 MW Siang Upper Multipurpose Dam Project, in Parong, Siang district, Arunachal Pradesh, India, on Aug. 1.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 25, 2025
China¡¯s new mega-dam triggers fears of water war in India
Delhi estimates the Chinese dam will allow Beijing to divert as much as 40 billion cubic meters of water, or just over a third of what is received annually at a key border point.
Muddied prospectors pan for gold in Manica province, Mozambique, near the Zimbabwe border, in 2010.
ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability
Aug 20, 2025
Mozambique¡¯s illegal miners reap risky rewards but land suffers
Rivers around mining sites are polluted, and mercury has seeped into the soil, creating a nightmare for farmers.
Haji Karam Jat (right), a fisherman, and his family members walk along an embankment in Keti Bandar town of Thatta district near the Indus delta, in the south of Pakistan on June 25.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Aug 7, 2025
Death of a delta: Pakistan¡¯s Indus sinks and shrinks
More than 1.2 million people have been displaced from the region in the last two decades as the downstream flow of water into the delta has fallen 80% since the 1950s.
Water-related accidents across Japan rose to 1,535 in 2024 and involved 1,753 people ¡ª the highest number in a decade, according to the National Police Agency.
JAPAN / Society
Jul 24, 2025
Authorities warn of dangers surrounding water-related activities this summer
Ten people died and two remain missing following a string of water-related accidents over the long weekend.
A man sits in a boat on the waters of the Brahmaputra river near the international border between India and Bangladesh in the northeastern state of Assam, India, in 2018.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 21, 2025
China starts construction on world¡¯s largest hydropower dam in Tibet
The project is part of China¡¯s push to expand renewable energy and reduce carbon emissions.
Items collected by people who hunt for coins and other valuables in the Yamuna River in New Delhi on June 26
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jul 17, 2025
New Delhi¡¯s river divers risk health in polluted waters, seeking treasures
Hundreds of divers hunt for coins, trinkets, discarded bottles and shards of metal and wood that can be sold in the capital¡¯s booming scrap market.
Once a way to transport lumber from the mountains to the coast, log rafting is now Kitayama's biggest attraction.
LIFE / Travel
Jul 7, 2025
A tiny mountain hamlet keeps traditional log rafting afloat
Log rafting was once a means of transporting timber, but now it¡¯s the tourist draw of a tiny Wakayama village.
A swimmer dives in into the River Seine in Paris on Saturday.
WORLD
Jul 5, 2025
¡®Childhood dream¡¯: Seine reopens to Paris swimmers after centurylong ban
The seasonal opening of the Seine for swimming is seen as a key legacy of the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Thai fisherman Chaweng Yothaud (right) collects water samples to test for alleged arsenic poisoning along the Kok River in the Golden Triangle region in northern Thailand's Chiang Rai province.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 11, 2025
Toxic Thailand rivers pinned on Myanmar mines
Around a dozen extraction operations have sprung up in Myanmar¡¯s Shan state since around 2022, in territory controlled by the United Wa State Army.
A hydroelectric dam near Shannan in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China in March 2025
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 10, 2025
Catastrophe on the roof of the world
As the source of 10 major rivers that sustain nearly 20% of the world¡¯s population, the Plateau¡¯s degradation threatens regional water security, food systems and biodiversity.
Teachers and students from Karachi University take part in an anti-India protest on April 28. Pakistan has warned that any attempt by India to stop water supplies from the Indus?River could be seen as an "act of war."
COMMENTARY / World
May 8, 2025
New Delhi¡¯s warning to Islamabad
Modi has thus retained strategic ambiguity, while sending a resolute message: Resource-sharing comes with conditions.
The Laguna Grande restoration project at Valle de Mexicali, Baja California state, Mexico
ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife
Apr 10, 2025
Once-dying Mexican river delta slowly nursed back to life by conservationists
In drought-hit Mexico, conservationists are reviving the Colorado River Delta, restoring wetlands and drawing back wildlife once lost.
An aerial view of Thames Water's Beddington Sewage Treatment Works near Croydon, south London on Friday. Thames Water ¡ª and other British water companies privatized since 1989 ¡ª are under fire for allowing the discharge of large quantities of sewage into rivers and the sea.
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 17, 2025
A stain on Britain: Sewage contaminates its waterways and seas
The pollution affects the seafood and tourism industries, while delaying construction projects and hampering the economy.
America¡¯s cyberforces grapple with cluster of deaths by suicide
The U.S. Cyber Command building (center) stands on the National Security Agency campus at Fort Meade, Maryland.
Many Indonesians named after Japanese anime characters
Some people in Indonesia are named Doraemon, the name of a lead character of the blockbuster anime series with the same title.
Yasukuni Shrine introduces ban on military attire and cosplay
People gather in front of thousands of lanterns on display at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on July 15 during the Mitama Matsuri, one of the capital's largest summer o-Bon festivals.
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
Data from NTT Docomo¡¯s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
Â鶹´«Ã½ brewers experiment with a secret ingredient: music
At Smoke Craft, a craft beer brewery in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, music isn't just a background to the brewing process ¡ª it's an ingredient.
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
Data from NTT Docomo¡¯s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.
J. League enters new era as league kicks off first fall-spring campaign
Players from each J. League club pose during a kickoff event on Monday ahead of the start of the 2026-27 campaign.
Speaking Japanese at the movies with ¡®Chiikawa¡¯
A "Chiikawa The Movie" poster is seen at Toho Cinemas in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
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