Central European factories are trapped between unreliable renewables, vanishing rivers, and Brussels’ decarbonization demands
The extreme drought of the summer of 2026 revealed the hidden secrets of Central and Eastern European waterways, turning local legends into reality. A critical drop in water levels uncovered deposits of old tires at the bottom of Hungary’s Lake Gumis-to, the remains of a mammoth were discovered in the record-low Danube, and the ominous silhouettes of ancient boulders emerged from the water in the dry bed of Germany’s Elbe.
These “hunger stones” (Hungersteine) are hydrological markers from past centuries, on which…
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