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Bookmark or Share- Blockchain can be the key that unlocks the SDGs. Here's howOne example is that of the Aral Sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The rivers that feed the lake have been diverted, causing it to shrink by 90% since the 1960s. As Hongbo Yang of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, has put it : 'The irrigation of the farmland helped to achieve one SDG goal, number two, that aims to enhance food ...
- 7 ways to break the fast fashion habit - and save the planetIntensive cotton farming in Central Asia is partly responsible for the drying up of the Aral Sea - once one of the four biggest lakes in the world, but now known as the Aralkum Desert. As the report says: “We are unwittingly wearing the fresh water supply of central Asia and destroying fragile ecosystems.”
- Water crises are a top global risk | World Economic ForumThe World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. Incorporated as a not-for-profit foundation in 1971, and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Forum is tied to no political, partisan or national interests.
- What is desertification and why is it important to understand?In the 1960s, the area was covered by the fourth-largest lake in the world, the Aral Sea. Since then, it has shrunk to a tenth of its former size, with only three small, highly salty lakes remaining. In Soviet times, its waters were used for irrigating a semi-desert region to grow cotton, leading to a drop in water levels.
- Here's how Ukraine is protecting its conservation legacyUnder Stalin, the USSR famously dried up the Aral Sea by diverting rivers for cotton irrigation, and in Ukraine it dumped industrial pollution into the Dnieper River. Although there were conservationists in the Soviet Union, their work wasn’t encouraged, Goodwin says, leaving post-Soviet nations like Ukraine in a data deficit.
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