{"id":84289,"date":"2026-07-10T08:38:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84289"},"modified":"2026-07-10T08:38:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:38:54","slug":"frances-heatwave-desert-river-is-reduced-to-giant-sandbank-as-western-europe-suffers-record-breaking-temperatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/frances-heatwave-desert-river-is-reduced-to-giant-sandbank-as-western-europe-suffers-record-breaking-temperatures\/","title":{"rendered":"France&#8217;s Heatwave &#8216;Desert&#8217;: River Is Reduced To Giant Sandbank As Western Europe Suffers Record-Breaking Temperatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Daily Mail (caution: tabloid):<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.com\/1s\/2026\/07\/09\/20\/109916185-15966227-A_drone_view_shows_a_bridge_with_sandbanks_of_a_branch_of_France-a-2_1783626739816.jpg\" alt=\"A drone view shows a bridge with sandbanks of a branch of France's longest river\" width=\"428\" height=\"287\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">France&#8217;s longest river has been reduced to a sandbank\u00a0as deadly temperatures have soared across Western Europe amid a record-breaking heatwave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">As Europe experienced its most severe ever recorded heatwave in June, drought conditions are worsening in France as shocking images <span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/sciencetech\/article-5647289\/Droughts-affecting-400-MILLION-people-Europe-regular-occurrence.html\" target=\"_self\">show a completely barren Loire River in Montjean-sur-Loire<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0The dry river, which is 625 miles long, has been transformed into a desert-like landscape with only stagnant puddles that remain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Daily Mail (caution: tabloid): France&#8217;s longest river has been reduced to a sandbank\u00a0as deadly temperatures have soared across Western.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84290,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84289\/revisions\/84290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}