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The story of a village in Kazakhstan that sits on the Aral Sea's shrinking shores

Once one of the worlds largest inland lakes, Asia's Aral Sea has evaporated into desert, dried by Soviet era irrigation plans. One village in Kazakhstan sits on the shrinking shores of the Aral Sea.

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Valerie Kipnis