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NASA Gauges Plant Stress in Costa Rican Drought

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The ECOSTRESS image shows plant stress in the Guanacaste region of Costa Rica (in red on inset map) a few months after the onset of a major Central American drought. Red indicates high stress, yellow is moderate stress, greens/blues are low stress. Light gray is cloud. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA’s Ecostress system has imaged the stress on Costa Rican vegetation caused by a massive regional drought that led the government to declare a state of emergency on July 23.

In Costa Rica, more intense drought conditions, shown in red, are centered on the province of Guanacaste, NASA reports.

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