The impacts of cotton production on the environment are easily visible and have different faces. On the one hand there are the effects of water depletion, on the other hand the effects on water ...

Uzbekistan leases this land for farming—mostly cotton. "If they privatized and let the farmers decide what to grow," says Aral Sea expert Philip Micklin, "you'd see more efficient use of water." ...

the two rivers that feed the Aral. Under the Soviet Union, the rivers were diverted to use for agriculture -- mainly for cotton and rice cultivation, causing the sea to shrink by up to 90 percent ...

The region’s two major rivers, fed by snowmelt and precipitation in faraway mountains, were used to transform the desert into farms for cotton and other crops ... The lake they made, the Aral Sea, was ...

When Maria Zadneprovskaya first saw the Aral Sea in 2021, she was overcome by a ... diverted for irrigation in the Soviet era to water cotton and rice fields. By 2010, the surface area had shrunk ...

the two rivers that feed the Aral. Under the Soviet Union, the rivers were diverted to use for agriculture -- mainly for cotton and rice cultivation, causing the sea to shrink by up to 90 percent in ...

By establishing a program to promote agriculture and especially that of cotton, Soviet government led by Khrouchtchev in the 1950s deliberately deprived the Aral Sea of its two main sources of water ...

the two rivers that feed the Aral. Under the Soviet Union, the rivers were diverted to use for agriculture -- mainly for cotton and rice cultivation, causing the sea to shrink by up to 90 percent ...