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Desiccation of the Aral Sea, once the fourth-largest freshwater lake in the world, has left separate bodies of water that cover about one-quarter of the surface area of a half century ago
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'Aral Tengizi -- Story of a Dying Sea'
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Desiccation of the Aral Sea, once the fourth-largest freshwater lake in the world, has left separate bodies of water that cover about one-quarter of the surface area of a half century agoTire tracks and seashells share a piece of land where the Aral Sea once stoodA man reclines on a pile of freshly harvested cottonCotton pickersA buoy in the Aral Sea's former Gulf of SaryshyganakThe "shores" of the Karatun Peninsula, in Kazakhstan's northern portion of the Aral SeaRusted-out hulls from an abandoned Aral Sea fleet. The "Aleksei Leonov" and her sister ship in the windswept basin of the former Dzambul HarborThe "Smelaya," a barge whose rotted-out hull rests in the former Bay of ButakovThe "Vostok," a fishing vessel abandoned to the elements by the Aral's retreatA local museum display depicting the Aral coast bustling with life early in the Soviet periodLocally extinct species of fish in formaldehyde at a museum in the Aral regionA sign that once warned travelers approaching the coast to beware of wild animals