The Central Asian Dust Bowl

The same village and its surroundings in Karakum Desert, which occupies roughly two-thirds of Turkmenistan's territory.

A Kazakh villager carries a bucket of water from a well in a desert that once formed the bed of the Aral Sea.

Children run past rusting ships abandoned in sand that once formed the bed of the Aral Sea near the village of Zhalanash, in Kazakhstan.

A man checks his mobile telephone as he walks through a remote Yerbent village in Turkmenistan's Karakum Desert.

A sign advertises shashlik and beer in a remote region of Turkmenistan.

A yurt and other disused structures in the Karakum Desert of Turkmenistan.

Turkmen villagers emerge from a shop.