1/ A year after the destruction of Ukraine's Kakhovka Dam, vegetation cover in formerly irrigated parts of the southern Kherson region and Crimea has fallen by 85% or more. It's a sign that the former breadbasket region is reverting rapidly to its previous semi-desert state. ⬇️
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ChrisO_wiki (chriso_wiki@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 03:11:25 JST ChrisO_wiki - Bill repeated this.
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ChrisO_wiki (chriso_wiki@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 03:11:25 JST ChrisO_wiki 2/ Recent data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer instrument on the Terra and Aqua satellites shows drastic changes in the region's Vegetation Condition Index. It currently shows vegetation cover across much of the region to be at under 15% of historical trends.
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ChrisO_wiki (chriso_wiki@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 05:27:26 JST ChrisO_wiki 3/ The area where vegetation cover has fallen the most in both Crimea and the southern Kherson region closely matches the area formerly irrigated by the North Crimean Canal and the Kakhovka Canal on the mainland. The Kakhovka Dam's destruction cut both canals off from the Dnipro.
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ChrisO_wiki (chriso_wiki@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 05:27:26 JST ChrisO_wiki 4/ Around 12,000 km of canals were fed by the reservoir on both sides of the Dnipro. The Kakhovka Canal alone irrigated 220,000 hectares of land and enabled the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people in the agricultural sector and heavy industries.