Valerie Kipnis
Stories
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Environment
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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Climate
One of the world's largest inland lakes has dried up from Soviet-era irrigation plans
Once one of the world's largest inland lakes, the Aral Sea in Central Asia, has evaporated into the desert, its waters sucked dry by Soviet-era irrigation plans.