“Hunger stones” are geological inscriptions found on river stones in Central Europe that serve as records of past droughts.
According to science and technology news site, there are multiple carvings in the Děčín stone that serve as traces of historical droughts. Carvings in the stone commemorate droughts going all the way back to the 1400s.
But, based on our research, it was unknown whether that particular stone was visible in August 2022 and, if so, why. Ars Technica noted,"It's actually possible to see this particular stone some 126 days out of the year, thanks to the construction of a dam that was built on a tributary of the Elbe in 1926."Andrea Toreti, a senior researcher for the European Commission Joint Research Centre, said during an Aug.
"Just to give you an idea the 2018 drought was so extreme that, looking back at least the last 500 years, there were no other events similar to the drought of 2018, but this year I think it is really worse than 2018," Toreti said during the news conference. Landmark rivers, including the Rhine, Thames, and Po, were receding so much that, as German news site DW
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