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 ...

An island created by the eruption of a mud volcano in the Caspian Sea is finally going the way of the dodo, based on satellite images of the structure.

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 ...

A team of researchers discovered a new island in the Caspian Sea using space images. Cyclical sea changes, climate change, and shifting tectonic plates may all be reasons that the isle has ...

It published video showing live-fire exercises at sea, and navy divers firing weapons underwater while training in a swimming pool.

The Caspian Sea, the world’s largest inland water body, is a dynamic system whose environmental history is recorded in its complex sedimentary archives and fluctuating water levels. Research in ...

The diminutive seals are the obvious ‘poster children’ of the Caspian Sea’s plight, but many other species are threatened by its retreat, and the environmental impacts are far-reaching.

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.

MAZANDARAN, IRAN—Phys.org reports that a wooden shipwreck discovered in Iran on the southern coast of the Caspian Sea has been studied by a team of researchers from the International Association ...

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.