In a move aiming to reshape the regional energy landscape and bring Central Asia closer to Europe, the three countries have launched a joint venture, seeking to develop a new transcontinental green ...

By bnm Tehran bureau Iran has launched exploratory drilling operations in the Caspian Sea after years of neglecting the ...

Captured by satellite in 1967, the Soviet ekranoplan stunned American intelligence. Capable of flying just above water at 400 mph, the massive craft blurred the line between ship and plane, forcing ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency effort to resurrect a secretive Soviet design for an aircraft that skims just ...

The Middle Corridor—officially known as the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR)—is rapidly evolving into one ...

Kazakh ecologists and environmental activists worry that the Caspian Sea’s levels are set to decline further.

A huge explosion has ripped through the Azerbaijani capital of Baku in the Yasamal district. Smoke and flames billowed over the nearby tower blocks after the blast. Unconfirmed reports on social media ...

The world's largest landlocked body of water, the Caspian Sea, is evaporating at an alarming pace. Since the 1990s, its level has fallen by more than 3 metres. With ports drying up, fishing in ...

Russian scientists confirmed a new island in the northern Caspian Sea during a research expedition. The island emerged due to a decrease in the Caspian Sea's water level linked to climate change ...

Iran is making significant progress on its first Caspian Sea oil drilling project in three decades. Early estimates suggest 600 million barrels of oil and 2 trillion cubic feet of gas in the ...

This work attempts to expand the understanding of the whole picture of the Caspian Sea surface oil pollution and its sources. We present results based on satellite SAR and VIS data obtained 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.