After Losing Crops to Drought, Sicily Fears Losing Tourism, Too

As tourists savored icy granitas under hibiscus trees and swam in the cool Mediterranean Sea, in the farmlands of southern Sicily, among hillsides so scorched they resembled desert dunes, a farmer watched recently as his cows headed to the slaughterhouse.After months of drought, he didn’t have any water or food to give them.“It’s devastating,” said the farmer, Lorenzo Iraci Sareri, as tears fell on his tanned…