This spring was one of the driest on record in Germany. Agriculture, groundwater, and even retail prices are suffering. Plants and ecosystems are already in drought stress. What can be done?There's an ...

KAUB, Germany — Just after sunrise, Capt. Frank Sep turned to his ship’s radio for the defining news of his day: the water level in Kaub, the shallowest part of the middle section of the Rhine River, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: "The Rhine level here is at least one to 1.50 meters (three to five feet), maybe even two meters (6.5 feet) below average," ...

Ambassador Sebastian Groth accompanied by Katja Keul, Germany's Foreign Minister of State for Africa and an embassy official when they met with the National Assembly's Defence, Foreign Relations, and ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's government is considering special aid for livestock farmers to help them overcome a sharp rise in animal feed prices after this summer's drought, German agriculture ...

BERLIN (AP) — The German government said Wednesday it will compensate thousands of farmers whose harvests have suffered as a result of this year’s extreme drought, which many experts have linked to ...

HAMBURG, Aug 22 (Reuters) - The German government will launch a special aid programme worth up to 340 million euros to help farmers after this summer's drought massively damaged harvests, agriculture ...

An extreme drought in Europe has left one of the continent's largest rivers, the Danube, at its lowest water levels in nearly a century. Those low water levels have exposed dozens of German warships – ...