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Levi Bridges, KUER | Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune
Freelance Reporter and Salt Lake Tribune Reporter
Fishing boats are left high and dry near the shores of the Aral Sea in western Kazakhstan after the industry disappeared in the early 1990s as the lake began to dry up. (Abduaziz Madyarov | The Great Salt Lake Collaborative)
A drying sea half a world away carries a message for those worried about the Great Salt Lake
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Aral District, Kazakhstan • When Akshabak Batimova was growing up, her father left their village in western Kazakhstan each morning to fish in the Aral Sea — until recently, one of the world’s largest...