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...crawl or do anything but loll in his bearer's arms. He is bald, and his arms and legs are like sticks. Mohammed Akbar, 48, says Saifudden is an orphan. "Well, soon anyway." Akbar explains that Saifudden's father fled this ravaged village three months ago because of the drought and that his mother is dying fast. Ask about food and the villagers say that, born in the year the rains first failed, Saifudden has never tasted fruit, vegetables or meat. Ask about water and their anger boils over. "They're killing us here," says Akbar, pointing over the horizon...
...Chaars is charas?hashish, pressed cannabis resin. Production is booming here in Afghanistan, aggravating a famine brought on by years of drought and war. A healthy field of hemp needs plenty of water. Dope growers in the mountains siphon off the streams that still flow, while hash farmers in the plains dig wells up to 100 meters deep to reach the water table. The combined effect of drought, reduced water from the hills and the cannabis cultivators' new boreholes is catastrophic, says Bertrand Brequeville of French aid group Action Contre la Faim. "It's only the rich drug producers...
Leaf peepers may have to be extra determined in their quest this fall. With drought conditions still affecting almost half of the continental U.S., many leaves are falling from trees before they get a chance to change colors. And with wildfires still burning in Western states, the foliage across many areas of the Rockies could be obscured by smoke. But there are some bright spots: peepers in the northernmost parts of the Midwest, upstate New York and northern Vermont can anticipate the most intense fall colors of the past few years...