{"id":66776,"date":"2024-09-16T20:03:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T11:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/16\/climate-scientists-troubled-by-damage-from-floods-ravaging-central-europe"},"modified":"2024-09-16T20:03:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T11:03:16","slug":"climate-scientists-troubled-by-damage-from-floods-ravaging-central-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66776","title":{"rendered":"Climate scientists troubled by damage from floods ravaging central Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts unsurprised at intensity of extreme weather but say damage wreaked shows how unprepared world is<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2024\/sep\/16\/europe-floods-death-toll-storm-boris-poland-austria-romania-slovakia\">Europe floods \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Picturesque towns across central Europe are inundated by dirty flood water after heavy weekend rains turned tranquil streams into raging rivers that wreaked havoc on infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The floods have killed at least 15 people and destroyed buildings from Austria to Romania. The destruction comes after devastating floods around the world last week when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/16\/typhoon-yagi-scores-dead-from-flooding-in-myanmar\">entire villages were submerged in Myanmar<\/a> and nearly 300 prisoners escape a collapsed jail in Nigeria, where floods have affected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/10\/nigeria-floods-borno-alua-dam-maiduguri\">more than 1 million people<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/16\/climate-scientists-troubled-by-damage-from-floods-ravaging-central-europe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts unsurprised at intensity of extreme weather but say damage wreaked shows how unprepared world isEurope floods \u2013 latest updatesPicturesque towns across central Europe are inundated by dirty flood water after heavy weekend rains turned tranquil s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"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":[401,2331,1036,65,221,455,313,82,400,1213,1168,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-climate-crisis","category-czech-republic","category-environment","category-europe","category-extreme-weather","category-flooding","category-myanmar","category-nigeria","category-poland","category-romania","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/66776","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\/4106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66777,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66776\/revisions\/66777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}