National Geographic: They’re raging a continent apart, but two deadly natural disasters–the Russian wildfires and the Pakistan floods–may be connected by the Asian monsoon, one of the most powerful atmospheric forces on the planet, scientists say. That’s because the monsoon–a seasonal wind system that brings rain and floods to Pakistan and much of the rest of Asia in summer–also drives the circulation of air as far away as Europe, said Kevin Trenberth, a senior scientist at the Boulder, Colorado-based …