Towels, toiletries, and a map of the river ... twin city across the Rhine. Although smaller than Wiesbaden, Mainz attracts more attention because it is the home of one of Germany's great ...

Jostling through crowds of Germans and tourists in the Rhine River village of Bacharach, I climb to the sun deck of the ferry ...

The red areas on the map below show where there has been flooding in recent days. In Germany, the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia have been worst hit. In Belgium ...

The figure is around twice as high as Greenpeace found in its first survey of the Rhine in 2020. In late 2021, the number of microplastic particles in the river stood at 0.63 per cubic metre.

Cargo shipping remains halted on the Rhine in some areas of southern Germany, although authorities in Baden-Württemberg in the south west say water levels are set to fall in the coming days.