Eadi Gul, 5, at the Khorastan Camp outside the capital of Badghis province in Afghanistan, populated by a mix of ethnic Tajiks from the nearby village of Tutak and Pashtuns displaced by conflict in another district. Badghis has been badly hurt by an ongoing drought that struck northern Afghanistan in 2017. Extreme weather patterns associated with heat waves and droughts are raising the risks of simultaneous harvest failures of vital crops worldwide such as wheat, maize and soybeans, two studies published Monday found. This is pushing the world closer to the edge of potential food price spikes, associated social unrest and food shortages. The studies, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, found that in an increasingly interconnected world, there’s a greater chance that extreme weather events can have ripple effects in more than one region at once. In particular, when […]