Environmental effects of the Kakhovka Dam destruction by warfare in Ukraine

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Shumilova, O.; Sukhodolov, A.; Osadcha, N.; Oreshchenko, A.; Constantinescu, G.; Afanasyev, S.; Koken, M.; Osadchyi, V.; Rhoads, B.; Tockner, K.; Monaghan, M. T.; Schroeder, B.; Nabyvanets, J.; Wolter, C.; Lietytska, O.; van de Koppel, J.; Magas, N.; Jaehnig, S. C.; Lakisova, V.; Trokhymenko, G.; Venohr, M.; Komorin, V.; Stepanenko, S.; Khilchevskyi, V.; Domisch, S.; Blettler, M.; Gleick, P.; De Meester, L.; Grossart, H. -P.
• 署名单位: Leibniz Association; Leibniz Institut fur Gewasserokologie und Binnenfischerei (IGB); Leibniz Association; Leibniz Institut fur Gewasserokologie und Binnenfischerei (IGB); National Academy of Sciences Ukraine; Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine & National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; National Academy of Sciences Ukraine; University of Iowa; University of Iowa; National Academy of Sciences Ukraine; Institute of Hydrobiology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Middle East Technical University; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Goethe University Frankfurt; Free University of Berlin; Technical University of Berlin; Leibniz Association; Leibniz Institut fur Gewasserokologie und Binnenfischerei (IGB); University of Groningen; Ministry of Education & Science of Ukraine; Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding; Leibniz Association; Leibniz Institut fur Gewasserokologie und Binnenfischerei (IGB); Humboldt University of Berlin; Ukrainian Scientific Center of Ecology of the Sea (UkrSCES); Ministry of Education & Science of Ukraine; Odessa State Environmental University; Ministry of Education & Science of Ukraine; Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv; KU Leuven; Leibniz Association; Leibniz Institut fur Gewasserokologie und Binnenfischerei (IGB); University of Potsdam
• 刊物名称: SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0036-9935
• DOI: 10.1126/science.adn8655
• 发表日期: 2025-03-14
• 页码: 1181-1186
• 关键词: removal; WAR

摘要

The use of water as a weapon in highly industrialized areas in the Russo-Ukrainian war has resulted in catastrophic economic and environmental damages. We analyze environmental effects caused by the military destruction of the Kakhovka Dam. We link field, remote sensing, and modeling data to demarcate the disaster's spatial-temporal scales and outline trends in reestablishment of damaged ecosystems. Although media attention has focused on the immediate impacts of flooding on society, politics, and the economy, our results show that toxic contamination within newly exposed sediments of the former reservoir bed poses a largely overlooked long-term threat to freshwater, estuarine, and marine ecosystems. The continued use of water as a weapon may lead to even greater risks for people and the environment.