Located between Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Azerbaijan, the Caspian Sea is the world’s largest landlocked body of water, part of the “Middle Corridor” – the fastest route from China to ...

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 ...

According to the ministry, cases of seals dying en masse in the Caspian Sea have been recorded since the early 2000s. Notably, in 2000, around 10,000 deceased seals were discovered, with chronic ...

The Caspian Sea is surrounded by five countries that have long used it as an important trading route. The ship, believed to be a three-masted vessel, was likely abandoned in the late 18th or early ...

The island formed in early 2023, when a mud volcano in the Caspian Sea’s Kumani Bank, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) off the coast of Azerbaijan, ... even though the volcano was underwater. ...

The Kumani Bank mud volcano in the Caspian Sea created an island in early 2023 that had almost disappeared by the end of 2024, ... the underwater mud volcano is solidly beneath sea level, ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov inspected navy training in the Caspian Sea and ordered the rapid completion of work on new facilities there, his ministry said on Thursday.

Damming, over-extraction, pollution and, increasingly, the human-caused climate crisis are driving the decline of the Caspian Sea. Some experts fear it’s being pushed to the point of no return.

Caspian Sea Shipwreck Studied. News January 2 ... by a team of researchers from the International Association for Mediterranean and Oriental Studies in Italy and the Underwater Archaeology Faculty ...

The Caspian Sea is drying up. The world’s largest inland body of water has dropped by two metres since the mid-1990s, shrinking by 15,000 square km, an area bigger than Connecticut.

Kozybakov did not like it. It was salty and “smelled like the sea”, said Kozybakov, an ecologist, now 51. He grew up in Aktau, a city in western Kazakhstan on the shores of the Caspian Sea.