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Kakhovka Reservoir on 7 June 2022 (top) and 18 June 2023 (bottom). Landsat 8\/OLI and Landsat 9\/OLI-2, respectively. NASA Earth Observatory\/USGS\/Lauren Dauphin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NASA Earth Observatory has before-and-after satellite imagery<\/a> showing the impact of the destruction of Ukraine\u2019s Kakhovka Dam last month. The Kakhovka Reservoir is emptying out (above), the irrigation canals that relied on that reservoir are drying out, and there was flooding downriver of the dam in the immediate aftermath of the breach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NASA Earth Observatory has before-and-after satellite imagery showing the impact of the destruction of Ukraine\u2019s Kakhovka Dam last month. The Kakhovka Reservoir is emptying out (above), the irrigation canals that relied on that reservoir are… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1632,1634,74,1633,1635,73,177,464],"class_list":["post-1817567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-conflicts","tag-canals","tag-dnipro-river","tag-flooding","tag-kakhovka","tag-kherson","tag-landsat","tag-satellite-imagery","tag-ukraine","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1830764,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/05\/flooding-in-rio-grande-do-sul\/","url_meta":{"origin":1817567,"position":0},"title":"Flooding in Rio Grande do Sul","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"8 May 2024","format":"link","excerpt":"Porto Alegre on 8 May 2024 (Landsat 8\/OLI) Devastating floods in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil\u2019s southernmost state, have killed at least 95 people and displaced 150,000 more. 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