Europe battles with heat wave, Lisbon reaches its hottest temperature ever

Europe is in the grip of heat wave. It’s so hot in Germany and Switzerland that an entire swath of the River Rhine has dried up completely, according to a new report. The water levels in a long stretch of the 766-mile-long river, which runs from Lake Constance to Rhine Falls, are disturbingly low. Earlier this week, about a ton of fish have died of soaring temperatures in Swiss waters, The Rhine specifically rose about 4 degrees higher than normal for the summer season.