(260412) -- MOYNAQ, April 12, 2026 (Xinhua) -- A lizard stands beside the "ship cemetery" in Moynaq, Uzbekistan, April 10, 2026.

The "ship cemetery" displays the wrecks of ships abandoned as a result of the Aral Sea crisis. Situated between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, the Aral Sea, once the world's fourth-largest lake, continues to shrink and has lost more than 90 percent of its original surface area since the 1960s, leaving behind vast stretches of desertified lakebed. (Xinhua/Jiang Hexuan)