Rhine

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Some 2,500 jobs have been axed since 2022 in Ludwigshafen, which is dominated by sprawling chemical plants that stretch along the river Rhine, and more cuts are set to come.

From Barron's • May 17, 2026

Just over a three-hour drive south, skirting the Rhine until you hit the Swiss border, heading into an Alpine gateway towards the turquoise waters of Lake Thun, footballing folklore is being scribed.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

When Augustine died in 430, the Vandals, a barbarian people who had crossed the Rhine decades earlier and already fought their way through Gaul and Iberia, had reached the gates of Hippo.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

A new analysis of ancient bones shows that hippos lived in the Upper Rhine Graben between about 47,000 and 31,000 years ago, during the depths of the last ice age.

From Science Daily • Oct. 26, 2025

Europe’s two biggest rivers, the Rhine and Danube, are smaller and connect much less of Europe.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond