{"id":48095,"date":"2022-09-02T00:25:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T15:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/sep\/01\/pakistan-floods-satellite-images-underwater-urgent-aid-appeal"},"modified":"2022-09-02T00:25:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T15:25:14","slug":"urgent-aid-appeal-launched-as-satellite-images-show-a-third-of-pakistan-underwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48095","title":{"rendered":"Urgent aid appeal launched as satellite images show a third of Pakistan underwater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humanitarian workers expect conditions to worsen as monsoon rains continue and say millions face a terrible winter<\/p>\n<p>Aid workers have appealed for urgent donations to fight the \u201cabsolutely devastating\u201d impact of flooding in Pakistan, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2022\/09\/Pakistan_inundated\">new satellite images<\/a> appeared to confirm that a third of the country is now underwater.<\/p>\n<p>As the UK\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dec.org.uk\/?gclid=CjwKCAjwsMGYBhAEEiwAGUXJaTrlfeZlHLfZkuP7wlcGVeBj3vWfxjbHiviLAdDm2R-PylfCcY5cTxoC0SkQAvD_BwE\">Disasters Emergency Committee<\/a> (DEC) launched an appeal to raise funds for the 33 million people affected, the European Space Agency released stark images based on data captured by its Copernicus satellite.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/sep\/01\/pakistan-floods-satellite-images-underwater-urgent-aid-appeal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humanitarian workers expect conditions to worsen as monsoon rains continue and say millions face a terrible winterAid workers have appealed for urgent donations to fight the \u201cabsolutely devastating\u201d impact of flooding in Pakistan, as new satellite imag&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2266,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2331,65,455,313,59,393,60,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","category-flooding","category-global-development","category-humanitarian-response","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48096,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48095\/revisions\/48096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}