The Caspian Sea is a geographical marvel and a critical resource for the five countries—Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan—that border it. But the future of the world’s ...

Allowing the Caspian Sea to succumb to industrial exploitation and climate-induced desiccation would be an irreversible ...

In this case, something like that happened over the Caspian Sea — the Russian Federation is launching its cruise missiles at ...

In the first image from November 2022, the underwater mud volcano is solidly beneath sea level, with no discernable land ...

By 2100, the Caspian Sea's water levels could plummet by between ... Warmer air is also drying up the flow in some of the main rivers that feed it, said Ms Alizade, who is now a climate change ...

The nearby Garabogazköl lagoon, connected to the Caspian Sea by a narrow strait, once previously dried up when water flow from the Caspian was blocked in the 1980s, but has since been restored.

A detailed investigation of a wooden shipwreck discovered off the Mazandaran coast in southern Iran shed light on maritime trade in the Caspian Sea. The findings were recently detailed in a study ...

Two ships ship lie grounded ashore in the Caspian Sea, north of Makhachkala, Russia, Feb. 1, 2005 (AP Photo by Hadzhimurad Zurgalov). Editor’s note: Robert Looney passed away on Dec. 19 ...

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