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    Up First briefing: Ukraine's land scarred by war; Iranian activist wins Nobel Prize

    The vast Ukrainian farmland abandoned due to war can be seen from space. Jailed Iranian human rights activist and journalist Narges Mohammadi wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
    by Suzanne Nuyen Oct 06, 2023 2 minutes
    NASA Harvest analysis of unharvested crops (in purple), along the front line of the war in Ukraine.

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    — shared exclusively with NPR — reveals that 6.5-8.5% of Ukraine's total cropland is unplanted or abandoned due to Russian and Ukrainian troops' heavy artillery use during the war. It's left a scar so

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