Reuters: Wind lashes against four rusty Soviet ships moored where the Aral Sea once lapped at the shores of a vibrant fishing town. There is not a drop of water to be seen around the port of Aralsk — a silent testament to decades of Soviet experiments with nature that have turned the Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth largest lake, into a salt-encrusted desert. “Apocalypse” reads graffiti scribbled on one lonely hulk. Cows forage for scraps of dry grass on the exposed seabed …