diga Kakhovka

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. It seemed like a quiet night near the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant in Ukraine.Then suddenly a roar and the sound of flowing water.“We are now used to loud bangs and so I didn't think it was anything serious,” he said an inhabitant of the southern shore town of Nova Kakhovka.Within minutes water began flowing through a breach.And soon the passage crossing the Dnipro River was washed away.The dam built by the USSR in 1956, an important source of water for the Crimean peninsula annexed by Russia, for the region's agriculture and for cooling the reactors of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, no longer existed while a massive wave of water began to flow downstream, causing a social, economic and ecological catastrophe. A torrent of water burst through a gaping hole in a dam on the Dnipro River that separates Russian and Ukrainian forces in southern Ukraine, fl...