The Aral Sea
The monument to the Aral Sea in Moynaq (Mo'ynoq), formerly a sea port, now home to only a few thousand residents at most. Once a bustling fishing community and Uzbekistan's only port city with tens of thousands of residents, Mo‘ynoq is now dozens of kilometers from the rapidly receding shoreline of the Aral Sea.
Photo by Ludo Kuipers, Sat Jun 08, 2013