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A satellite image from 1964 shows the Aral Sea before the dramatic decline in lake levels altered the shoreline.

A satellite image from 1964 shows the Aral Sea before the dramatic decline in lake levels altered the shoreline.

False-color images taken by USGS-NASA Landsat satellites show what was once an island gradually becoming part of a peninsula.

False-color images taken by USGS-NASA Landsat satellites show what was once an island gradually becoming part of a peninsula.

Southern parts of the Aral Sea nearly vanished between 2000 and 2009, though a dam helped stabilize areas in the north.

Southern parts of the Aral Sea nearly vanished between 2000 and 2009, though a dam helped stabilize areas in the north.

Heavy spring rains briefly returned water to the Aral Sea in 2010, but lake levels visibly dropped just a year later.

Heavy spring rains briefly returned water to the Aral Sea in 2010, but lake levels visibly dropped just a year later.

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Aral Sea abandoned boats photograph courtesy of Ismael Alonso, Copyright 2011


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