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After the costs of war on human life come the effects on everything people have built and grown. In Gaza,聽a ravaged infrastructure聽will need replacing. In Ukraine, despoiled croplands will require painstaking regeneration.

Howard LaFranchi, who wrote about the Ukrainian military鈥檚 agency in聽getting grain flowing聽again to global markets, reports today on the聽resilience of nature and villagers a year after the destruction of a Soviet-era dam.

Predictions were apocalyptic. Industrial sludge had flowed. The toxic aftermath can鈥檛 be ignored, but residents who stayed now nurture new growth. They rejoice that a toxic bloom didn鈥檛 materialize.

Some villages are dying, one man told Howard. 鈥淏ut we will do what we can to keep ours alive.鈥�