Laguna extends school suspensions to Tuesday as monsoon rains persist

LUCENA CITY – Laguna Governor Sol Aragones has extended the suspension of face-to-face classes at all levels throughout the province to Tuesday, Aug. 11, as heavy rains brought by the southwest monsoon continue to pound the Calabarzon region.  “Children, our province is still experiencing moderate to heavy rains, with

The Danube's level at Paks, south of Budapest, has risen by about 19 centimetres from its previous low, allowing the first additional Paks nuclear plant turbine to be restarted and reconnected.

10 August 2026 The Danube level close to Romania’s Cernavodă nuclear plant increased by some 8 cm compared to the projected level after two barges were sunk to change the water flow, the manager of the nuclear plant, Romeo Urjan, announced, cited by Digi24 on Sunday, August 9. The updated forecast indicated at that mom

Hungary’s main nuclear plant has been operating at approximately 10 per cent of its full capacity since late last week

Extreme heatwaves and low rainfall across the region have left the Danube at record lows over the past week.

Romania is racing to sink four barges into the Danube River to redirect water toward a nuclear power plant

Romania rushes to sink 4 barges in the Danube to keep a nuclear power plant's second reactor running  AP News

Hungary's only nuclear plant, which relies on water from the Danube River, could be forced to close amid a drought. CBS News' Ramy Inocencio reports.

Romania races to divert Danube water to nuclear reactor as shutdown looms  Reuters

It’s a total ship show. Scores of sunken World War II ships — rusty old Nazi battleships among them — have suddenly surfaced in Europe’s Danube River as its water levels plunge to dangerous lows. The underwater treasures, which also include woolly mammoth bones, have emerged while a summer drought and heat wave scorche

Hungary is facing an energy crisis as the Danube River, which cools the nation's largest power plant, dries to record lows amid a severe drought.

In the middle of the river separating Serbia and Romania near the Serbian port of Prahovo, a rusty hull is now visible along with a broken mast where the Nazi flag used to fly.

Romanian naval forces blew up part of the drought-hit Danube river.

The wrecks of World War II-era German ships have resurfaced along the Danube in Serbia as record-low water levels expose vessels sunk at the end of the war by the retreating Nazi army.