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Prolonged Drought Spurs Elephant Starvation

For elephants roaming the savanna in Kenya, drought can be a matter of life and death.


NASA Earth Observatory maps by Joshua Stevens, using MODIS NDVI data from the Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LPDAAC) and Google Earth Engine. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published May 3, 2017
Data acquired October 16, 2009 - January 3, 2010

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