{"id":201238,"date":"2022-08-23T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=201238"},"modified":"2022-08-23T18:32:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T13:02:00","slug":"hunger-stones-carved-in-stone-what-are-these-warning-signs-that-europes-drought-has-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/hunger-stones-carved-in-stone-what-are-these-warning-signs-that-europes-drought-has-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunger Stones: Carved in stone: What are these warning signs that Europe\u2019s drought has revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cCarved in stone: What are these warning signs that Europe\u2019s drought has revealed\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>Down To Earth <\/b>on<b> 18th August 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Europe is suffering from the worst drought in half a millennium. Rivers have dried up so much that \u2018hunger stones\u2019 have been revealed and have gone viral on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are Hunger Stones?<\/b><\/h5>\n<figure id=\"attachment_201242\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-201242\" style=\"width: 367px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-201242 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1661168839_Hunger_Stone_Drishti_IAS_English.jpg?resize=367%2C149&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Hunger stones\" width=\"367\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1661168839_Hunger_Stone_Drishti_IAS_English.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1661168839_Hunger_Stone_Drishti_IAS_English.jpg?resize=300%2C122&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1661168839_Hunger_Stone_Drishti_IAS_English.jpg?resize=768%2C311&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-201242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Down To Earth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hunger stones or <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hungersteine <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in German are a common hydrological marker in central Europe. They date back to the pre-instrumental era.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These stones were embedded into rivers <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by ancestors when rivers were subdued to severe levels subsequently causing famine and food shortages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many of the hunger stones found have unique carvings on them that seek to remind the next generation that if water levels get to this point, food availability will be affected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One famous carving example is in the Elbe river in D\u011b\u010d\u00edn, Czech Republic which says &#8220;Wenn du mich siehst, dann weine&#8221; (&#8220;If you see me, weep&#8221;).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cCarved in stone: What are these warning signs that Europe\u2019s drought has revealed\u201d published in Down To Earth on 18th August 2022. What is the News? Europe is suffering from the worst drought in half a millennium. Rivers have dried up so much that \u2018hunger stones\u2019 have&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/hunger-stones-carved-in-stone-what-are-these-warning-signs-that-europes-drought-has-revealed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hunger Stones: Carved in stone: What are these warning signs that Europe\u2019s drought has revealed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,9],"tags":[10504,10514],"class_list":["post-201238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-down-to-earth","tag-dte","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700773327,"cached_date":1702014791},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}