By Ben Coates

August 15, 2026

Source: New York Times

All across Europe, shipwrecks and skeletons are rising from the deep.

Near Prahovo, Serbia, Nazi ships scuttled in 1944 now lie broken-backed on sandbanks. In Croatia, a 1930s cargo ship protruded from the water. On the newly exposed riverbed of the Danube in Bulgaria, what local experts say is most likely part of the skeleton of an ancient mammoth was found scattered across the sand, like discarded bones after a giant’s picnic.

Much of Europe is in the middle of a severe drought, and major rivers have been reduced to a fraction of their usual size. Europe’s second-longest river, the Danube, is now facing record lows, recently measuring just 9 inches deep in Budapest. Part of Italy’s mighty Po River is also at a record summertime low. And the Rhine, a major outlet for trade flowing from the Alps to the North Sea, is now shallower than at any time since records began.

Another article recently about the extreme drought in Europe. The U.S. is also facing water shortages to some extent in the Western part of the country. Climatic end times scenarios? Possibly, but we have had droughts before. Weather changes are part of Biblical end-time prophecy. What is the old saying, we all talk about the weather, but we can’t do anything about it. Just a thought. Rh