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Global river flows reach driest levels in decades

Rank
Ran
27h
Updated
17d ago
Final
Outlets
27
Regions
5
Countries
20
Languages
8

+9

Where it travelled

The 20 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. 3 international outlets publish from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

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  • Africa 2 outlets · 2 countries · 7%
  • Americas 4 outlets · 4 countries · 15%
  • Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 2 countries · 7%
  • Europe 12 outlets · 9 countries · 45%
  • Middle East 4 outlets · 2 countries · 15%
  • International 3 outlets · 11%

The figures

Coverage
27 outlets in 20 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are no longer held: they lasted a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 27 outlets, 2 state-owned, 9 public-service, 16 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 2: Kenya, Nigeria. Americas 4: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica. Asia-Pacific 2: Australia, Malaysia. Europe 9: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Sweden, United Kingdom. Middle East 2: Saudi Arabia, Syria. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Arabic, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish.
Timeline
Earliest article RTÉ, 17 Sept 2026, 04:00 UTC. First seen 17 Sept 2026, 04:00 UTC. Last seen 18 Sept 2026, 07:04 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region International. Topic Environment. Hard news Not judged. This story predates the hard-news rule (methodology 3.0). Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
6.79, at the end of the last day measured. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
17 Sept 2026 34 25.99 26 20 – – 1.2
18 Sept 2026 198 6.79 27 20 – – 1.3

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How this was measured

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Started 17 Sept, 04:00 UTC · Updated 18 Sept, 07:04 UTC

Covered by 27 outlets

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Africa 2 outlets

  • Channels TV Nigeria
  • Citizen Digital Kenya

Americas 4 outlets

  • El Espectador Colombia
  • Estadão Brazil
  • Infobae Argentina
  • La Nación (CR) Costa Rica

Asia-Pacific 2 outlets

  • Free Malaysia Today Malaysia
  • SBS News Australia

Europe 12 outlets

  • Dagens Nyheter Sweden
  • Der Spiegel Germany
  • ERT Greece
  • France 24 France
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Germany
  • ORF Austria
  • RFI France
  • RTÉ Ireland
  • RTP Portugal
  • Tagesschau Germany
  • The Guardian United Kingdom
  • VRT NWS Belgium

Middle East 4 outlets

  • Arab News Saudi Arabia
  • Asharq Al-Awsat Saudi Arabia
  • Asharq News Saudi Arabia
  • SANA Syria

International 3 outlets

  • INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed International
  • INTLAllAfrica International
  • INTLUN News International

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