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An area of the Central Asian inland sea, once the fourth largest in the world, was left parched in August, according to Nasa photographs.

The Aral Sea has been retreating over the last half-century since a massive Soviet irrigation project diverted water from the rivers that fed it into farmland.

Images taken from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on Nasa's Terra satellite.

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