Italy imposes emergency measures Over 100 towns in the Po valley have been asked to ration water during the night amid the drought. According to the river observatory, the Po’s water was in high ...

The Po River valley in northern Italy is in the grip of its worst drought for 70 years. These pictures help show just how bad it has become. New satellite images have highlighted the extent of a ...

analysing historical data about the Po River, the longest watercourse in Italy, that for the first seven months of 2022 reached a critically low level, affecting the entire valley and forcing the ...

Nestled in a bend in the river, the small town of Ochiobello marks the border between Emilia-Romagna and Veneto. Here, the A13 freeway, which connects Bologna to Padua, seems to span the Po with ...

The valley of the River Po, which produces around 40% of the country's food, including wheat and rice, has barely seen any rainfall for around four months. The river, Italy's longest ...

The main artery that cuts through Italy’s heartland, where 30% of its food is produced, is the 650-kilometer-long (400-mile-long) River Po, which winds its way from the Alps to the Adriatic Sea ...

Vicini's "Stella" farm, located in the village of Zeme in the Po Valley, 70 kilometres (43 miles ... Parts of the Po river bed have dried up entirely as the drought worsens Andrea PATTARO AFP ...

Extreme drought brought on by record high temperatures in Europe has revealed an unexploded, WWII-era bomb nestled along the banks of Italy's River Po. Fishermen discovered the American-made bomb ...