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Danube's critically low level reveals relics from the past

Season 2026 Episode 163 | 1m 20s

In Europe, a climate crisis is unearthing history. Months of brutal heat waves have left the Danube River at a critically low level. But as the water vanishes, it's revealing remarkable relics from the past, including Nazi warships and even the fossilized bones of a woolly mammoth. Deema Zein reports.

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