Bahira, the German Shepherd dog rescued after the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant disaster, has died. Recently, the animal ...

The deliberate destruction of the Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine during the ... resulted in substantial erosion, soil loss, and vegetation uprooting, driving extensive habitat destruction.

The Kakhovka Hydro is part of the Dnieper cascade of hydroelectric power plants five kilometers away from the city of Novaya Kakhovka, the Kherson Region.

The 2023 breach of Ukraine’s Kakhovka dam caused deadly flooding ... says Shumilova. It may also harm plants and animals that have rapidly moved on to what was the bed of the reservoir.

The results suggest that floodplain vegetation equivalent to 80% of an undammed ecosystem can be expected within five years. "The lessons learned from the case of the Kakhovka reservoir in Ukraine ...