Old Farming Habits Leave Uzbekistan a Legacy of Salt

Sunday, June 15, 2008 - 07:35 in Earth & Climate

Seventeen years after the end of the Soviet Union, cotton is still king in Uzbekistan, where the environmental destruction linked to the diversion of rivers for irrigation continues unabated.

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