How is cotton candy made? Pouring sugar into the center of a hot, spinning machine will do the trick. While cotton candy used to contain just sugar, today there plenty of other flavors to choose from.

Here's a fascinating look at how your typical cotton T-shirt is made NPR's Planet Money takes us inside the complex web of people, places, and machines that bring you a standard T-shirt.

Take a closer look at the harvesting process and machinery behind cotton production — from fieldwork to the first steps of ...

Halfway around the world in Pakistan, the world’s sixth-largest producer of upland cotton, severe flooding, made worse by climate change, destroyed half that country’s cotton crop.