CNN CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield August 14, 2021 17:59:00
Stores. >> reporter: fred, here's yet another reason to care about the climate crisis. it's making your food more expensive. from devastating droughts to crippling frost, extreme weather is becoming more common and that is creating nightmares for farmers. let me give you just a few examples. severe frost in brazil is damaging coffee crops, dry weather in much of north america is hurting sugar crops and historic droughts in the west that's crushing wheat. in washington state, a staggering 93% of the spring wheat crop is in poor or very poor condition because of droughts. and all of this, as you...