The Rhine River’s water levels dropped to the lowest in almost 150 years as hot, dry weather scorches Europe, threatening to disrupt a crucial route for transporting coal, fuel and industrial commodities across a large swath of the continent.The water level at Kaub, a choke point for vessels heading

(Bloomberg) -- Europe’s biggest rivers, vital arteries for the region’s heavy industries, are drying up after the region was seared by a series of heat waves.

Falling water levels on the Rhine are forcing barges to operate with a fraction of their usual load and have sharply raised the cost of river transport, as drought and extreme…

Germany has experienced successive heat waves with little rainfall this summer