Climate Crisis

Pakistan floods: 8 images show the destruction from space

by Jennifer Walter
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Blue and green map of flooding Indus River in Pakistan
NASA Earth Observatory/USGS

FIDA HUSSAIN/AFP/Getty Images

Pakistan is undergoing extreme flooding.

This flooding has affected over 30 million people, damaged hundreds of thousands of homes, and killed at least 735,375 livestock.

Since June, heavier-than-average seasonal rains have battered the country.

The Indus River and other waterways are overflowing, with the worst of the flooding concentrated in Pakistan’s southeastern districts.

Anadolu Agency/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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