{"id":66744,"date":"2024-09-14T13:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T04:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/14\/afghanistan-war-deforestation-flooding-climate-change"},"modified":"2024-09-14T13:00:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T04:00:17","slug":"war-deforestation-flooding-in-afghanistan-they-are-all-linked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66744","title":{"rendered":"War, deforestation, flooding: in Afghanistan they are all linked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Always prone to natural disasters, the country\u2019s plight has worsened, and not only because of the climate crisis<\/p>\n<p>On 10 May 2024, Haroon Nafas was in his family\u2019s guesthouse in Baghlan, north Afghanistan, spending time with friends who had come to stay. It had been raining lightly all through the afternoon, but at about 3pm the group heard a loud crashing noise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe immediately went outside to see what was causing the sound,\u201d says Nafas. \u201cInitially, we were confused, thinking it might have been a plane. But then we realised, no, it\u2019s a flood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/14\/afghanistan-war-deforestation-flooding-climate-change\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always prone to natural disasters, the country\u2019s plight has worsened, and not only because of the climate crisisOn 10 May 2024, Haroon Nafas was in his family\u2019s guesthouse in Baghlan, north Afghanistan, spending time with friends who had come to stay. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4408,"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":[46,247,821,65,455,313,61,44,84,827,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-aid","category-deforestation","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","category-flooding","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-united-nations","category-water","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66744","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\/4408"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66745,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66744\/revisions\/66745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}